Opportunity sees its own shadow on the rim of Endeavour crater, Meridiani Planum, Mars. Click image for more Red Planet pics. Much closer to home, NASA has a new partner in space exploration and the solar system is the limit:
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully berthed with the International Space Station this morning after a long overnight approach including several unplanned maneuvers. The crew at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, concluded a long night of flight demonstrations and troubleshooting by watching astronaut Don Pettit control the station's robotic arm and grapple the Dragon at 6:56 a.m. PDT.Just consider that when the Falcon 9 booster for the Dragon aborted at the last second last week, SpaceX engineers replaced some critical engine parts while that bird was on the pad pointing skyward in just a few hours. If NASA had been stuck with traditional cost-plus aerospace contractors, that operation might have dragged out for weeks to the tune of millions of dollars.
- Speaking of newspace: I'm lucky. Readers here and a few plucky entrepreneurs saw it coming years ago and forced me to understand.
- Cloaking device, engaged!
- Whales take big, accurate gulps, a must for creatures weighed in tons. Now marine bio researchers have found a heretofore unknown organ which seems to facillitate that activity.
- Here's brief introduction to the bizarre virtual economies and hacker 'gold farming' industries courtesy of the big release of a long anticipated video game, Diablo III.
- This would be very cool, if it works as depicted:
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