Tag Archives: NASA

Happy Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Day?!

Posted on April 22, 2024 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Today, 22 April is Earth Day, an annual event (since 1970) commemorating our love of nature and the environment and our commitment to such public goods as clean air and clean water, but what about outer space, especially Low Earth … Continue reading →

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Martian Monday

Posted on October 20, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

We like drmickhead’s comment: “The fact that we have robots on another planet that will be photographing this event makes [us] inordinately happy.“

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Is NASA’s asteroid-capture mission legal?

Posted on September 13, 2013 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

NASA recently announced its plan to find and capture a small asteroid and place it in a stable orbit near the moon. (If you have a few minutes to spare, check out this cool animation of the proposed mission here.) But would an asteroid-capture mission … Continue reading →

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