We might have forgotten dreams can save us. It is possible we no longer live in a world where we look to new frontiers, and use the dreams of new worlds to positively change our lives here. We might live in a world where the dreams for the future and betterment of our home drive […]
The Kerbal Space Academy uses the game Kerbal Space Program and Twitch TV to inspire creativity and give a basic knowledge of physics. Their goal is to encourage the gaming community to be curious and learn. Here at the gaming expo at SXSW there are many unique takes on how to present games and what […]
At SXSW gaming expo NASA contractor Northrop Grumman has some young University of Texas Astronomy post docs and undergrads talking about the new James Webb Space Telescope. The JWST is launching in 2018 and will work with Hubble in our investigation of the cosmos. Eventually taking over Hubble’s role. Testing is going on right now […]
Frontiers and images, learning and inspiration, these are things at that core of how the NASA mission affects us. A new video aggregation service and competition was announced after Astronaut Don Pettit gave is talk about life on the International Space Station. NASA is teaming up with the Houston Cinema Arts Festival for their new […]
Of all the space or NASA related events at SXSW Interactive, the one that promises to be the most interactive is the NASA meet up. The thing that makes this a must stop isn’t just the fact an astronaut will be there, it’s getting to mingle with everyone up and down the NASA mission pipeline. […]
Dawn of the Harvest It only has taken us 214 years since Giuseppe Piazzi spotted the asteroid Ceres, but if everything goes correctly Friday, the Dawn space craft will enter in to orbit around Ceres. The space craft launched in 2007 and spent part of 2011 and 2012 around the asteroid Vista, a smaller […]
Happy Chinese New Year everyone! This week saw the beginning of the Year of the Sheep. Mark Zuckerberg welcomed the new year with a video post in, what Business Insider calls, “vastly improved” Mandarin Chinese. Post by Mark Zuckerberg. Meanwhile, Tech Crunch reports that our friends at Buzzfeed have ventured further into mobile territory this […]