Spectacular SpaceX Images are Free on Flickr
SpaceX, the commercial Space company founded by Elon Musk has created an account on Flickr and published over 100 pictures under a Creative Commons licence. In so doing they are apparently following NASA's lead which has
Mars One – Why Ireland Should be Proud of Joseph Roche
I've written about Mars One before. In principle it's a reasonable idea. Sensationalist headlines have focused on the one-way, lifetime commitment required of the participants but, under the right circumstances, it doesn't seem like an unreasonable sacrifice in order to make
A One-Way Ticket Out of This World – Are the Mars One 100 Out of Their Minds?
One of the topics in our house this weekend was the possibility of interstellar travel using generation ships, among other things (it's that kind of house). We had watched a documentary about the planets discovered by the Kepler
Philae Robot Lands on Comet, Bounces Twice before Settling
The Philae landing craft successfully landed on Comet 67P yesterday as part of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission. Scientists at Mission Control in Darmstadt, Germany celebrated as they received the signal from Rosetta confirming the landing.
Today We Land on a Comet
We've talked about Rosetta before. The European Space Agency's mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko took 10 years to catch up with the comet, which is about the size of a city, and which we now know is shaped like
Astronomy Ireland Lecture Tonight: Putting Soil into Orbit
Trinity College Dublin (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Tonight's monthly lecture by Astronomy Ireland is all about soil. If the human race is to become a space-faring species, we will need to think about soil, what it is,
