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How Billionaire Asteroid Miners Make Money -- Without Mining Asteroids - Forbes
This seems like an incredibly smart move: make money building out new tech while achieving your own goals.
business  space  smart 
4 weeks ago by mcroydon
An ultradeep image that’s *full* of galaxies! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
It's full of stars.
astronomy  photography  science  space 
6 weeks ago by mcroydon
NASA :: Airborne Sciences :: Aircraft Tracker
Where NASA's planes are.
nasa  space  aviation  plane  map  maps  mapping 
11 weeks ago by mcroydon
PyFITS Documentation — PyFITS 3.0.6 documentation
Python library for reading Kelper FITS data.
kelper  python  space  science  telescope 
11 weeks ago by mcroydon
Kepler Guest Observer Home
Software for analyzing data from Kelper.
python  science  space  telescope  kelper 
11 weeks ago by mcroydon
Light from alien cities could signal intelligent life out there - The Irish Times - Sat, Nov 05, 2011
Another way to look for others.
space  science 
november 2011 by mcroydon
Space - a set on Flickr
A geeks-eye-view.
flickr  space  photo  photos  tour 
october 2011 by mcroydon
NASA - NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration System
Mixed emotions.
nasa  space 
september 2011 by mcroydon
I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watching Me | MetaFilter
Impromptu temporary display at Udvar-Hazy.
space  satellite 
september 2011 by mcroydon
TRAVEL TO SPACE LAIKA BOSS
space  russia  dog  laika  meme 
september 2011 by mcroydon
NASA - SLS Launch
Want.
nasa  space 
september 2011 by mcroydon
We Know the Google NexusOne Can Survive a Hard Vacuum Because Someone Shot It into Space - Technology Review
Yay things in space!
space  nasa  android 
august 2011 by mcroydon
The History of the Space Shuttle - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
A great collection of photos.
space  nasa  shuttle  history 
july 2011 by mcroydon
Photo Index 59
Some amazing pictures of the International Space Station.
iss  nasa  space 
june 2011 by mcroydon
Life Frosting: Astronaut Training Party
Wow.
birthday  event  inspiration  space 
march 2011 by mcroydon
Building Space Shuttle Discovery | NASA Space Shuttle, Building & Construction Shuttle Discovery, Rocket | Space.com
Building discovery.
space  nasa  engineering  photos  gallery  photo 
january 2011 by mcroydon
Homemade Spacecraft on Vimeo
Simply amazing.
science  space  video 
september 2010 by mcroydon
cobot - managing coworking spaces
Coworking space management software. It seems like a pretty tiny niche to me, but looks well done.
app  application  business  collaboration  idea  management  software  sharing  service  resource  projectmanagement  office  tools  trends  web  webapp  tool  space  coworking 
september 2010 by mcroydon
Make: Online : $8,000 DIY satellite kit
Want.
cheap  diy  hardware  ideas  interesting  launch  projects  satellite  space 
july 2010 by mcroydon
Potomac School students take photos of Earth's curvature with help from iPad
Kinda fantastic.
science  learning  education  space 
july 2010 by mcroydon
GrandPerspective
This appears to be faster than DiskInventoryX.
app  apple  application  applications  apps  computer  disk  file  mac  macosx  graphics  freeware  free  filesystem  files  opensource  software  osx  space  storage  sysadmin  system  visualization  utility  utilities  tools  tool  harddrive  treemap  usage 
may 2010 by mcroydon
Update on Voyager 2 status - The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society
Bit flipping in deep space.
space 
may 2010 by mcroydon
First of the last Space Shuttle launches - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Awesome and sad.
awesome  engineering  history  launch  nasa  photography  toread  technology  space  shuttle  science  pictures  photos 
may 2010 by mcroydon
NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
Weather reports and alerts for space.
2008  astronomy  center  education  environment  gps  ham  hamradio  information  links  nasa  noaa  prediction  radio  science  solar  space  sun  weather  space_weather  propagation  ionosphere  borealis  aurora  astronomia 
april 2010 by mcroydon
CubeSat Kit Home
"Compared to traditional multi-million-dollar satellite missions, CubeSat projects have the potential to educate the participants and implement successful and useful missions in science and industry at much lower costs."
aviation  build  commercial  community  cube  electronics  diy  kit  howto  hacks  exploration  engineering  embedded  kits  make  nasa  projects  satellite  science  space  hardware  slashdot  technology  aerospace  cubesat  satellites 
march 2010 by mcroydon
White House won't fund NASA moon program - latimes.com
Who needs space exploration anyway?
moon  space  nasa  sad  future 
january 2010 by mcroydon
Useful LaTeX Tips/tricks/hacks | CNMAT
What it says on the tin.
typography  howto  mac  research  latex  space  tips  layout  workflow  bibtex 
december 2009 by mcroydon
Startup Lessons: Home
development  business  toread  startup  space  marketing  list  entrepreneurship  advice  read  gtd  entrepreneur  small  reddit  freelance  basics  lessons  wisdom  rules  financial  business/entrepreneur  jottit  smarts 
december 2009 by mcroydon
Interview: The Space Station's IT guys - Crave at CNET UK
Commodity hardware. In. Space!
technology  tech  space  computers  nasa  interview  station  it  iss 
november 2009 by mcroydon
Dark Roasted Blend: Rare Photos of the Russian "Buran" Space Program
Fantastic photos.
technology  history  science  interesting  fun  space  airplanes  shuttle  rockets  astronomy  photography  photos  flight  russia  buran  soviet  ussr  exploration  cccp  futurism 
october 2009 by mcroydon
Interorbital Systems – TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit | International ...
I can't tell you how happy this makes me. Seriously, I'm squealing on the inside. It's time to take the homebrew UAV concept to Low-Earth-Orbit.
space  future  satellite 
august 2009 by mcroydon
NASA NEBULA - Cloud Computing
It looks like they've selected some good tech including Eucalyptus, Solr, and Varnish.
research  opensource  internet  distributed  computing  cloud  space  virtualization  nasa  computerscience  cloudcomputing  enterprise  platform  computer_science  capacity  nebula 
july 2009 by mcroydon
Arduino Blog » Blog Archive » Arduino in Space
Arduino... in... space!
arduino  space 
july 2009 by mcroydon
Enfranchised Mind » Apollo 11 Dismembered
Good (but sad) points.
history  technology  science  space  politics  ideas  nasa 
july 2009 by mcroydon
Home - Delay Tolerant Networking Research Group
Includes pertinent RFCs and links to code for implementations of DTN2 and ION.
design  web  data  opensource  technology  network  research  internet  algorithm  architecture  networking  space  projects  future  communication  infrastructure  ip  networks  apl  dtn  ietf  tolerant  delay  dtnrg 
july 2009 by mcroydon
Delay-tolerant networking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Delay-tolerant networking (DTN) is an approach to computer network architecture that seeks to address the technical issues in heterogeneous networks that may lack continuous network connectivity."
reference  toread  wikipedia  research  wiki  network  internet  space  compsci  communication  mathematics  latency  dtn  networking 
july 2009 by mcroydon
"Interplanetary Internet" gets its first permanent node - Oddware - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au
DTN node deployed on the ISS.
internet  space  protocol  network  networking  dtn 
july 2009 by mcroydon
Slide 1 of 44 (Scope at reboot11, Matt Webb, S&W)
For the flipping.
design  toread  technology  diy  tech  work  presentation  inspiration  space  slides  culture  conference  example  creativity  talk  macroscope  reboot11  talks  scope  schulze&webb  matt_webb  reboot 
july 2009 by mcroydon
The Kennedy Space Center Gift Shop: The Space Shop
So much stuff so little time.
science  space  shopping  store  nasa  shuttle  toy  toys  shop  launch  gift  gifts  clothes  gear  astronaut  catalogs 
april 2009 by mcroydon
Kennedy Media Gallery
Awesome and sad. And now my desktop image.
nasa  shuttle  space  photo 
april 2009 by mcroydon
apollo 11 source:life - Google Image Search
Fantastic archive, via Adam.
space  pictures  images  google 
march 2009 by mcroydon
Make: Online : The N-Prize, the not-quite-right stuff
Really awesome. The world needs more microprizes and more hobbyist space exploration (IMHO).
space  hobby  rocket  launch  prize 
march 2009 by mcroydon
Dead reckoning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Including enough links to loose me for days.
maps  history  wiki  gps  language  space  travel  location  cartography  robotics  gamedev  localization  navigation  biology  words  bands  neural  lsa  pathfinding 
march 2009 by mcroydon
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Found in space
I want to click all of the links but need to do so later.
api  hack  algorithms  space  photography  computers  robots  flickr  astronomy  hash  awesome  socialsoftware  star  astrometry  machinetags 
february 2009 by mcroydon
imagitronics.org » R/C Moon
Fantastic hack.
moon  space  arduino  hack  electionic  electronics 
january 2009 by mcroydon
They Write the Right Stuff | Fast Company
A fantastic article on truly serious software.
programming  design  software  development  code  business  technology  science  computer  dev  security  interesting  work  coding  cool  space  management  projectmanagement  methodology  articles  inspiration  process  shuttle  quality  tips  article  productivity  engineering  nasa  qa 
january 2009 by mcroydon
Marketplace / Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center
I love that the Cosmosphere has a Marketplace page.
marketplace  cosmosphere  space  history  museum  kansas  hutchinson 
october 2008 by mcroydon
SpaceX - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"This article contains information regarding a Launch Service Provider that is currently in the process of conducting a launch."
reference  business  wikipedia  technology  space  astronomy  invention  research  spacetourism  spacex 
september 2008 by mcroydon
A real Space Oddity arrives at PC Pro | PC Pro blog
For when I build my satellite.
build  my  satellite.  linux  hardware  blog  technology  computer  embedded  cool  space  computers  gadgets  reading  small  article  pc  green  mini  tiny  cube  miniature  satellite 
august 2008 by mcroydon
Space Shuttle Launch: Guy Films Space Shuttle Launch from Passing Airliner
Fantastic view.
video  space  nasa  airplane  shuttle  launch 
august 2008 by mcroydon
MIT OpenCourseWare |
One more space systems design course.
space  satellite  design 
august 2008 by mcroydon
MIT OpenCourseWare |
Another satellite design course.
space  spacecraft  mit  satellite 
august 2008 by mcroydon
90% Hydrogen Peroxide
Kinda crazy.
science  space  fun  rockets 
august 2008 by mcroydon
NASA Images
For playing with later.
archive  graphics  history  image  media  nasa  science  shuttle  space  pictures  picture  photos  photo 
july 2008 by mcroydon
NASA -
The shuttle ferries spare parts to the ISS in an anti-climactic end to the program.
nasa  shuttle  science  space 
july 2008 by mcroydon
MIT OpenCourseWare |
16.851 Satellite Engineering
geo  leo  mit  satellite  space  design 
june 2008 by mcroydon
Space Mission Analysis and Design, Third Edition
The KU engineering has a copy.
space  satellite  design 
june 2008 by mcroydon
Virtual AGC Home Page
Over the top.
computer  emulation  emulator  history  nasa  reference  simulation  software  space  tech 
june 2008 by mcroydon
HobbySpace - Space Simulators
Lots and lots and lots and lots...
education  simulation  software  space 
june 2008 by mcroydon
List of spacewalks and moonwalks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of the day
space  list  wikipedia 
june 2008 by mcroydon
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Must make a roadtrip...
history  space  travel 
june 2008 by mcroydon
The NASA Missions : When We Left Earth : Discovery Channel
Watching this from the DVR. Pretty fantastic.
education  learning  science  nasa  space  tv  television 
june 2008 by mcroydon
Amazon.com: Uncle Milton Light-Up Solar System Motorized Mobile: Toys & Games
Oh yeah.
space  astronomy  planet 
june 2008 by mcroydon
Roberto Saccon on Web Technologies: Mount Amazon S3 on your Mac
Ooh handy. Appears to work just fine.
amazon  aws  backup  fuse  filesystem  howto  mac  macfuse  osx  service  s3  software  space  storage  todo  tutorial 
june 2008 by mcroydon
Earth Observatory Feature: Cities at Night: The View from Space
Light pollution can be so pretty.
earth  space  nasa 
april 2008 by mcroydon
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
<falls out of chair>
ai  funny  comedy  future  humor  portal  robots  tech  space 
january 2008 by mcroydon
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Astrowanking.
astronomy  blogs  london  space  weblog 
january 2008 by mcroydon
NASA Ares I Moon Rocket - Open-Source Contract With Boeing - Popular Mechanics
"...the specifications will be open-source and non-proprietary, so that other companies can bid on future contracts."
module  nasa  open-source  science  space  spacecraft  transportation 
december 2007 by mcroydon
OnEarth, KML via tiled WMS
free  gis  google  mapping  nasa  satellite  space  wms 
december 2007 by mcroydon
The Sputnik Legacy | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com
It's a shame to call this a graphic. It's really an interactive infographic/data visualization.
flash  history  interactive  space  timeline  visualization  data 
november 2007 by mcroydon
Twilight (Star Trek: Enterprise) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spoiler warning, but a great episode. I love all of the allusions and in jokes about future trek happenings.
star-trek  sci-fi  science-fiction  space 
november 2007 by mcroydon
SPACE.com -- Northrop Grumman Buys Builder of SpaceShipOne
Bold move.
space 
july 2007 by mcroydon
JPL Robotics: News
NASA releases bits of a toolkit that they use to create robots.
c++  development  electronics  framework  library  open-source  physics  programming  software  space 
june 2007 by mcroydon
NASA Ames, Open Source Software
One stop shop for lots of NASA open source software.
open-source  software  nasa  space 
june 2007 by mcroydon
Dark Roasted Blend: Rarely Seen Shuttle Activities
Fantastic images.
shuttle  space  nasa  photo  photos 
march 2007 by mcroydon
xdiskusage
This is a hot little utility can read in from du to give you an idea of what's going on.
chart  debian  disk  java  osx  software  space  sysadmin  utilities 
february 2007 by mcroydon
Computer glitch limits next shuttle launch | Tech&Sci | Science | Reuters.com
"The shuttle computers were never envisioned to fly through a year-end changeover," space shuttle program manager Wayne Hale told a briefing.
bugs  nasa  news  science  shuttle  software  space  us  thisisbroken 
november 2006 by mcroydon
NASA dawn of the Apollo program slides - a photoset on Flickr
Oh wow.
nasa  space  pictures  presentation 
november 2006 by mcroydon
September 5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I share a birthday with, among other things, the conclusion of space shuttle Discovery's madien flight.
birthday  meta  space  shuttle  discovery 
september 2006 by mcroydon
06pd1417.jpg (JPEG Image, 3008x2000 pixels) - Scaled (34%)
Watching the shuttle launch.
photo  nasas  jpeg  shuttle  space 
july 2006 by mcroydon
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