I've mentioned in here that I've started a podcast. This week it dawned on me why I enjoy it so much. It's the one place where my main concern is creating content. Everywhere else I'm helping my Read More
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Moon Shot web series backed by JJ Abrams
JJ Abrams has produced a new web series called Moon Shot. The Verge says the series "aims to shine the spotlight...on [the] scientists and...the human stories behind space travel that can sometimes be Read More
Astronomers Watch a Supernova and See Reruns – NYTimes.com
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope say they have been watching the same star blow itself to smithereens in a supernova explosion over and over again, thanks to a trick of Einsteinian Read More
Riding Light on Vimeo
This made the rounds last week, but I'm just now sharing it here. If you haven't seen it, this video helps you visualize the vast distances of space by giving you a "photon's eye view" of light Read More
Forgotten Apollo moon artifacts found in Neil Armstrong’s closet – CNET
Quite a find to be hidden away in your closet: Astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon when he traveled 240,000 miles on NASA's Apollo 11 mission in 1969. He passed Read More
Online Apollo Guidance Computer Simulator
Check out this #javascript implementation of the Apollo Guidance Computer http://www.svtsim.com/moonjs/agc.html Read More
Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer, Project Apollo — Medium
Programming was commonly thought of as "women's work". Read about the 31 year old woman whose software landed us on the moon: Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer, Project Apollo — Medium. Read More
Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist on Vimeo
Wanderers: Stunning short film on humanity's expansion into the Solar System: Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist on Vimeo Wanderers is a vision of humanity's expansion into the Solar System, Read More
Rosetta – an album on Flickr
Rosetta - an album on Flickr. Read More