Notes on Space

Sep 4, 2026

There is beauty and benefit in simplicity.

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Man the Artemis II Flicker page is cinematic. These photos are so wild.

Oct 31, 2019

Amazing! This technology didn't exist until a few years ago now a guy is doing it with his hobby rockets—Build Your Own Thrust Vectored Rockets For Vertical Landings Like SpaceX makezine.com

Mar 7, 2019

FWIW, this is one of my favorite coffee table books.

May 24, 2018

Some competition in space is exactly what the US needs.

Feb 7, 2018

The two @SpaceX Falcon Heavy Boosters landing at the same time is like something out of a sci-fi movie. youtube.com

Nov 24, 2017

This random astronomer on reddit is claiming that the astronomy community has not ruled out that this interstellar rock is an abandoned spaceship. Take that for what you will. reddit.com

Aug 21, 2017

More interesting than the eclipse is people watching the eclipse. Construction workers across the way.

Sep 27, 2016

The burning man dude that just asked Elon Musk about toilets on Mars is high, right?

Sep 16, 2016

Love this album of space-related images. imgur.com

Aug 27, 2016

New discoveries, intelligent devices and irrepressible dreamers are once again making space exciting. buff.ly

Aug 10, 2016

After two years, Erik Wernquist's Wanderers is still my favorite short. vimeo.com

May 9, 2016

Failure is an option for SpaceX—to be fair, landing the boosters are a bit of a bonus. The mission is still complete arstechnica.com

Mar 26, 2016

I'm pretty excited for this NASA graphics standards manual. It's like a conglomeration of my favorite things. standardsmanual.com

Mar 8, 2016

So, how awesome is the NASA Graphics Standards Manual? nasa.gov

Jan 17, 2016

Comets can't explain weird 'alien megastructure' star after all buff.ly

Dec 31, 2015

Whoa, interesting idea applying tilt shift to astronomical objects. imgur.com

Sep 28, 2015

Of all the days for it to be cloudy in Los Angeles, it's cloudy when there's a blood moon out.

Sep 26, 2015

New Horizons: Pluto displays rippling terrain bbc.com

Sep 21, 2015

This short is incredible—an attempt to build the solar system to scale. vimeo.com

Sep 16, 2015

Interesting to see a pricing page for a rocket company—only $90M for SpaceX's Falcon Heavy. buff.ly

Sep 10, 2015

Can't remember the last time I was this excited. T-Minus 15 minutes to our @SpaceX tour.

Aug 21, 2015

If you haven't started reading Tim Urban's explanation of Space X's Mars mission, you really should. buff.ly...

Aug 17, 2015

It's pretty amazing that Voyager 1, traveling 38,000 mph, won't reach Proxima Centauri for 73,000 years.

Aug 17, 2015

Excited to dig into this WBW post about how (and why) SpaceX will colonize Mars waitbutwhy.com

Aug 14, 2015

This is so awesome—The NASA Graphics Standards Manual flickr.com

Jul 6, 2015

What Are the Colors of Alien Life? newyorker.com

Jun 15, 2015

Incredible—Philae comet lander wakes up, says European Space Agency bbc.com

May 28, 2015

Successfully updated my telescope app to v.20, pretty proud of myself.

May 23, 2015

Elon Musk created a grade school for Space X employees. Jump to the 25 min mark in the video. theverge.com

Mar 23, 2015

Awesome. @SpaceX's photos are now public domain. theverge.com

Feb 15, 2015

Of all NASA's future mission possibilities, none excite me more than those on Titan. buff.ly

Feb 8, 2015

No human has traveled beyond low Earth orbit since 1972, the final Apollo mission. Frankly, that is embarrassing. vox.com

Dec 30, 2014

Be a skeptic and a believer—Working toward a warp drive: In his garage lab, Omahan aims to bend fabric of space" omaha.com

Dec 7, 2014

The dangers of space travel.

Dec 4, 2014

Watch NASA's new spacecraft take off. Launch time is 7:55am EST nasa.gov

Nov 29, 2014

This is cool. Robots are the sole inhabitants of Mars. Meet them. rojo2.com

Nov 13, 2014

So this is what it looks like on the surface of a comet.
esa.int

Sep 9, 2014

A dying star captured by Hubble. i.imgur.com

Sep 3, 2014

Identifying the anatomy of a nebula. reddit.com

Aug 30, 2014

Nuclear rockets, solar sails, ion drives—what is the road to Alpha Centauri? nautil.us

Aug 25, 2014

I'm sure Boeing would be pleased after a startup beat them out—Congressmen Are Red-Taping SpaceX to the Ground slate.com

Aug 14, 2014

Saturn's hexagon. photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov

Aug 5, 2014

Next NASA Mars rover to make oxygen, look for farmland cnn.com

Apr 17, 2014

Curiosity just doing its thing on Mars. No big deal. i.imgur.com

Mar 18, 2014

100 spectacular images from Hubble imgur.com

Feb 13, 2014

Stellar archaeologists, excavating the purest star in the sky. newscientist.com

Feb 10, 2014

Tilt-shift space images. buff.ly

Nov 16, 2013

How did I miss this? Elon Musk and Sir Richard Branson doing a Google Hangout. youtube.com

Sep 11, 2013

Futurist exercise: World runs out of oil, but discovers deposits on Mars. What happens?

Oct 14, 2012

Why it is dark at Night youtu.be

Sep 30, 2012

Space colonies of the 1970s. publicdomainreview.org

Aug 12, 2012

Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa wp.me

Aug 6, 2012

After 8 months the @MarsCuriosity has arrived. To put that in perspective New Horizons launched 6yrs ago, and will arrive at Pluto in 2015.

Aug 6, 2012

T-minus 3 hours until the @MarsCuriosity lands.

Jul 13, 2012

Live fireside chat with SpaceX and Tesla founder @elonmusk new.livestream.com

Jun 22, 2012

That one is going on my wall. RT @MichaelRIsaacs: @SamuelRSolomon Iron Man techli.com

Apr 27, 2012

Wow, successfully mining only part of an asteroid would make @PlanetaryRsrcs the wealthiest company in the world. mashable.com

Jan 14, 2012

Photo: Saturn and its rings cast striking shadows on each other tmblr.co

Oct 22, 2011

Unreal time lapse cinematography of the stars. me.lt