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Happy Birthday SpaceX!
11 years ago on March 14, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) “was founded with the goal of making human race a multi-planetary species,” as reported on SpaceX.com. Also on March 19,...
View ArticleAmazon CEO Finds Apollo Engines
Bezos Expeditions, operated by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, stated that they have recovered several Apollo F-1 rocket engines, as reported on their website. The F-1 engine was the power for NASA’s Saturn V...
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Interstellar Space or Not for Voyager 1
Reports of Voyager 1 in interstellar space appear to be inaccurate according to NASA’s Mission website, “The Voyager team is aware of reports today that NASA’s Voyager 1 has left the solar system,”...
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Private Firm Space Race Heats Up
NASA has encouraged American private spaceflight companies to develop spacecraft to fill the void left by the retirement of the Space Shuttles. Orbital Sciences Corporation (www.orbital.com) is no...
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2013 Fundamental Physics Prize Awarded
The 2013 Fundamental Physics Prize was awarded to Alexander Polyakov on the evening of March 20, 2013 at a ceremony held in Geneva, Switzerland. Polyakov was awarded the prize for his many discoveries...
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Angry Birds Invade NASA
Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment and NASA have teamed up to produce “Angry Birds Space Encounter” at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL. The exhibit, which opened on March 22, will...
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UFO or No??
The FBI has said that the most viewed public record is a memo from 1950 about UFO’s. The memo is an account of a story about “flying saucers”, told to an agent. The memo is referred to as the Hottel...
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ISS to get new crew ASAP
The International Space Station (ISS) will get a new crew in record time. Today a Russian Soyuz spacecraft will launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with one NASA astronaut and two Russian...
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Greek Tragedy or Neanderthal Remains?
Scientists have discovered a significant cache of Neanderthal remains in Greece, which is most known for findings from the classical and more modern times. The remains of Homo Sapiens’ closest extinct...
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Who-Mobile or SOAR Rocket Plane?
Swiss Space Systems (S3) plans to launch an unmanned robotic plane in 2017. The SOAR space plane will be used to launch satellites, its first launch will be from an Airbus A300. S3 plans a spaceport in...
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HBO Renews “Game Of Thrones” For Fourth Season
If you have been watching our show on Sliceofscifi.tv and/or been following our posts here you know that our own Zoe Hewitt has had some incredible interviews with the cast on the Red Carpet including...
View ArticleScientists Hedge on Dark Matter Discovery
Today NASA held a news conference to announce the results of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS). The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is an advanced cosmic-ray detector designed to seek out signs of...
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Hubble Finds a New Farthest Supernova
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found a new Supernova that exploded over 10 billion years ago. The previous record for farthest Supernova was just 350 million years earlier and found just three...
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Largest Solar Flare of 2013
The biggest Solar Flare of the year occurred at 3:16 a.m. EDT (0716 GMT) this morning April 11 and registered as a M6.5-class sun storm, a relatively mid-level flare on the scale of solar tempests. It...
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Happy Birthday Hubble
Twenty-three years ago (April 24, 1990) the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. The initial response to Hubble was one of frustration since the mirror...
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