Tag Archives: space

Spaceport America, not far from Truth or Consequences

Spun: February 22, 2010
If you think that U.S. President Obama’s new initiative for space – not only for NASA, but also for the nascent private space industry – is a chimera, well, check out this article in the New York Times: A New Exit to Space Readies for Business. The article, with tongue moving quickly from cheek to [...]
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The U.S. in space: Moon, out. Commerce, in.

Essay: February 1, 2010
It’s not like the United States is the only game in space. It wasn’t even the only country with a Moon project. China and Russia both made noises about going to the Moon with men (or women). Still, the U.S. was the pioneer on the Moon – the Apollo Project, “One giant step for mankind…”, [...]
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An Internet router in space

News: Communications    January 26, 2010
From a technical point of view, routers are the hardware that make the Internet the network of networks. Routers do the job by receiving and retransmitting the trillions of packets of Internet data, sending each towards its own destination with the route chosen by the router (if it’s smart enough). So, if space is to [...]
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Also tracking: Science and tech disappointments

Impact: General    January 13, 2010
Turning the year to a new decade is bound to produce a wide variety of retrospectives. Lists are always popular. I came across an interesting list the other day at the Scientific American site: 10 Science Letdowns of the New Millennium by Katherine Harmon. The original is presented as a slide show. Why, I’m not [...]
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