Where does a space hacker go to keep up and gear up? Here are our top sites to visit regularly: Parabolic Arc - Doug does a terriffic job of always having breaking a relevant news on this site. It's at the top of our feed readers. NewSpace Journal - The issues surrounding a brand new... Continue Reading →
Joining Michael today is Kate Arkless Gray(@radiokate and @spacekate). We met at last weeks Google Lunar X PRIZE Team summit. We chat about summit impressions and participatory space exploration. To be frank, Kate is exactly the person who can fulfill the role in an idea that this site was founded on. She's enthusiastic, intelligent, and capable... Continue Reading →
My favorite television show has nothing at all to do with Space. It's about a bunch of everyday, hard working men who work and live on crab fishing boats off the coast of Alaska for nine months out of a year. This year on Deadliest Catch (Discovery Channel) one of my favorite fisherman covered by... Continue Reading →
Robert and Sebastian join Michael again to talk more about their Google Lunar X PRIZE team Part Time Scientists. They reveal a number of goals that go well beyond just trying to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE like a new brushless motor and a distributed antenna network (Michael volunteered to put one on his... Continue Reading →
Today Michael catches back up with the Google Lunar X PRIZE team Part Time Scientists. You can follow them and all of the amazing things they are doing at part-time-scientists.com BTW, their current Facebook status is "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine." Plus they have the coolest T-Shirts ever: Email podcast@evadot.com or leave a comment... Continue Reading →
If you could reboot the space program, no strings attached, what would it look like? It's kind of a crazy idea isn't it? It would be an interesting exercise to remove the boundaries that we unconsciously place on ourselves because we feel like we have to operate within the current environment. It seems too often... Continue Reading →
CNN has Presedent Obama's announcment on a new Space Vision to be unveiled tomorrow on the front page of the site right now. Space doesn't get to be front and center very often. Almost never. Timing in presenting ideas or starting a revolution is as important as the the idea itself. To the space nuts out there:... Continue Reading →
The topic of the week seems to be Open Government. Fantastic! NASA is open by design, and the public support is vital because it's the public that pays for their projects. Contrast this to private industries where public support is not important. Let's say I have a new product idea and I develop a prototype... Continue Reading →
I had the pleasure of being a participant at @spaceupconf this weekend. It was the best conference I've EVER been to. Ever. My only regret is that I didn't bring my entire family. It was that good. There were 16 Ignite talks on Saturday night. All of them excellent. Unfortunately the first 7 didn't... Continue Reading →
