My Outer Space

     The Space Shuttle Endeavor did a controlled flip on the way to the International Space Shuttle.  It's  similar to watching a trapeze artist doing a death defying somersault from one trapeze bar to the next even though shuttle weighs thousand of tons filled with billions of dollars worth of equipment not to mention seven  crew members.  You can check it out at: www..metacafe.com/watch/773977/nasa_space_shuttle_back_flip_mission_sts_... Just don't get motion sickness watching it...       Enceladus, one of the most exciting pla

NASA is sending a two punch space craft to the moon to bombard the South Pole.  This ship the Centaur and a Shepherding Ship will deliver the blow in February.  Said to be a cost effective,  low risk way to find out if there is hidden water ice under the unique craters on the South Pole.  First Centaur, with all of its sensing devices will be thrust into the moon by the Shepherding Ship and then when the dust settles the Shepherd will send itself and its equipment in a kamikaze dive to see if there is water.  Then some American corporation will bottle the water and sel

On April 8th the first South Korean astronaut will be heading towards the International Space Station aboard a Russian spaceship and along with him will be the first space kimchi, the national food of South Korea.  Kimchi is a cabbage dish that is fermented by burying it in the ground.  It is aromatic and delicious.  But it wasn't easy to make it into a space food.  It cost millions of dollars to create a variety that would not turn poisonous due to cosmic rays and other forms of radiation and to make it less than pungent for fellow astronauts.  It is a study in culina

The spy satellite that has been a failure since day one and is now hurdling toward earth with a payload of deadly gas now is skeet for the United States missile defense and anti-satellite weapons system program.  President Bush ordered the satellite, the size of a school bus and weighing over 5000 pounds, to be blown to bits before it crashes into earth.  Unfortunately, David Wright of the Union of Concerned Scientists, is concerned the 100,000 pieces of debris that the satellite will be blown into will effect space travel for years to come.

A Japanese astronaut is learning to throw a boomerang from world champion Yashiro Togai so that when he goes up to visit the space station in March  he can toss it around the station to study aerodynamics of the bent stick that always returns to the thrower and was used by aborigines to hunt.  It's only right that an ancient weapon using the principles of flight will now be tested on the most modern inventions of flight... More strange things being sent up to space and this is quite fishy indeed.  It seems German scientists are sending 60 baby fish up into space on a two piece r

It's not as silly as the last reported life on Mars photo the legendary Medusa Face, that was seen by Earthlings everywhere thanks to an orbiting  satellite that photographed what appeared to be a face but actually was an optical illusion caused by light reflections but this action photo taken by one of those rover robots seems to be showing a sasquatch, big foot,  or what ever you want

Is the utterance Beam me up Scotty going to be the way of the future.  Yes, it seems according to a couple of MIT fellows, Max Tegmork and Edward Farhi.  They were presented the film, Jumpers, a fillm about people who do teleport from place to place and get away with bank robbery in doing so.

If you didn’t see it, you missed it. The Friday morning meteor shower, Quadrantid, was out of this world. At least that is what I was told. You snooze, you lose. And that’s what I was doing. There were over 100 sparkling asteroids an hour streaming in the darkened sky.

The crown jewel in the night sky, the red ruby of the cosmos, Mars, is closer to the earth than it has been in decades and will not be this close again until 2016. It is the bling of

Third posting, third title, from The Week In Space to My Outer Space now to Across The Universe, an old Beatles tune, a new movie and now the new title of this column.  So it goes and here is what is new in the universe this week...