Most Recent Posts

FEATURED IMAGE: 18 Mar 2010, 19:03 UTC | Cassini Shows Saturnian Roller Derby, Strange Weather 21 March 2010, 2:52:53UTC

RSS | About | Contact | Site Map

Press Releases

For Journalists

Press Releases

For Press Officers

Past Releases

Submit Press Release Feed

Advertise

The PTTU Team

Home » Blogs » Posts » Most Recent

Expand Entries

21 Mar 2010
- 01:28 UTC Astronomy.FM Skylog... Sky Safari March 21 - On March 21 at 2 pm EDT (1600 UT), Sky Safari travels back 400 years to meet Galileo Galilei.
- 00:57 UTC Space Politics Houston’s delegation optimistic about Constellation On Thursday morning eight members of the House from the greater Houston area held a press conference with Houston mayor Annise Parker (at the podium above, flanked by the House ...
- 00:57 UTC Spaceports Commercial Human Launch by 2015 Orbital Sr. VP Frank Culbertson appearing before the Augustine Commission in 2009.Former NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson, now Senior Vice-President at Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corporation, appeared before a Senate Commerce subcommittee ...
- 00:00 UTC NASA Watch Nelson's Compromise Emerges Sen. Nelson Floats Alternate Use for NASA Commercial Crew Money, Space News "As the Senate Commerce Committee begins work on a 2010 NASA authorization bill, science and space subcommittee chairman ...
20 Mar 2010
- 23:41 UTC reevesAstronomy: As... How to Install / Upgrade RAM and Hard Drives in a Desktop... A video I made showing how to swap out RAM and hard drives.
- 23:26 UTC Universe Today Astronomy Without A Telescope – How To Impress An Alien (... It's about fifty years since Frank Drake sent out our first chat request to the wider universe. I say about as I think the official date is 11 April 1960 ...
- 23:17 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Rising Waters in St. Paul Acquired on March 17, 2010 (top), and August 5, 2009 (bottom), these false-color images show differences in vegetation and river levels at different times of year. Vegetation appears bright green. ...
- 23:05 UTC Spaceports Soyuz Plans April 2, 2010 Flight to ISS Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, fellow Russian Mikhail Korniyenko and American NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, will take off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in the desert steppes of Kazakhstan on April 2, 2010 ...
- 22:34 UTC Lunar Networks Detailed view of a Solar Eclipse Corona Astronomy Picture of the Day for March 16, 2010: "Only in the fleeting darkness of a total solar eclipse is the light of the solar corona easily visible. Normally overwhelmed ...
- 22:15 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Kelvin Wave Renews El Nino A trio of globes of sea surface height anomalies shows a deep pulse of warm water—a Kelvin wave—crossing the Pacific Ocean in February 2010. Kelvin waves stregnthen and maintain El ...
- 21:59 UTC Music of the Sphere... Fire-hose Rocket Pack Jet-Lev Flyer is a water-driven "rocket pack." It's not that hard to explain, but watch the video. I don't think this is quite my style of personal flying machine (though ...
- 21:48 UTC EAAE News Newly Discovered Planet Could Hold Water Source: Space Daily The Corot satellite strikes again with another fascinating planet discovery. This time, the newly discovered gas giant planet may have an interior that closely resembles those of ...
- 21:29 UTC One-Minute Astronom... Cluster Hunting with the “Big Dog” As the weather moderates and northern observers emerge from hibernation this time of year, the constellation Canis Major, the Big Dog, is ideal for exploring an hour or two after ...
- 20:31 UTC The Night Sky Guy New Night Sky Episode Check out my new stargazing episode aired Friday on the Weather Network. Bookmark
- 19:37 UTC 13.7 Quantum Mechanics And Experiences You Never Have (Unless ... By Adam Frank So yesterday I had the pleasure of attending a seminar on The Measurement Problem in Quantum Mechanics at the University of Rochester. After an hour and half ...
- 19:37 UTC 13.7 Quantum Mechanics And Experiences You Never Have (Unless ... By Adam Frank So yesterday I had the pleasure of attending a seminar on The Measurement Problem in Quantum Mechanics at the University of Rochester. After an hour and half ...
- 18:49 UTC Spaceports Back to the Future: Payloads to ISS NanoRack is an exciting space payload firm being launched by commercial space pioneer Jeff Manber. His firm has two NanoRack payloads in association with Kentucky Space now at the Kennedy ...
- 18:05 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com LIVE: ILS Proton M set to launch EchoStar XIV satellite International Launch Services (ILS) are set to launch the EchoStar XIV telecommunications satellite via their veteran Proton-M launch vehicle and Breeze-M upper stage on Saturday. Lift-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome ...
- 18:02 UTC NASA Watch Where Are NASA's Social Media Guidelines/Policies? How to Devise a Stellar Social Media Policy: NASA's Tips, Network World "NASA has been exploring social media--a territory still foreign to many businesses--for years now. But back in 2007, ...
- 17:55 UTC Skymania News Alien world is like one of ours A European probe has discovered the first planet orbiting another star that resembles one in our own solar system. The distant world is a similar size to Jupiter and is ...
- 17:38 UTC Spaceports 2010 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Where, If Anywhere, Is... The Scientific American covered the five space policy experts as they debated at the 2010 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate of where NASA is going in the Obama Administration lead space ...
- 17:06 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... A New Riddle Cycle Begins Happy Saturday, and welcome to a new cycle of riddles. We all start over with a blank slate to build up a list of “riddle champions” for the next bonus ...
- 16:34 UTC Alien Life Titan’s liquid cycles and what alien astronomers would kn... Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g Stars - Astronomers have come across what appear to ...
- 16:30 UTC Bad Astronomy Fakequinox Today, March 20, at 17:32 GMT (1:32 p.m. EST) — after three months of crawling northward — the center of the Sun will lie on the celestial equator, heralding the ...
- 16:23 UTC My Dark Sky Spring is here… I mean in the northern hemisphere… there’s no different in Malaysia, it’s summer all the times… Today is the vernal equinox, the time when our Sun shines directly on the ...
- 15:08 UTC Universe Today The Periodic Table of Science Bloggers David Bradley is a first-class science writer from the UK, who writes with a chemistry slant at his blog Sciencebase. He's also an interesting guy to follow on Twitter, and ...
- 15:07 UTC Spaceports Nelson Pushes Large NASA Booster Rocket The U.S. Senate will direct NASA to develop a super-size rocket and a spacecraft for missions beyond Earth orbit, the senior senator from Florida, Bill Nelson, said Friday to 200 ...
- 14:58 UTC Young Astronomers Spectacular Saturn: – Part 1 Saturn is the sixth planet out from the sun and is the second of the gas giants, it is also the second largest planet after Jupiter. It has been a ...
- 14:49 UTC Bad Astronomy Sean Carroll on Colbert My friend and Hive Overmind co-blogger Sean Carroll is a theoretical cosmologist, which means he thinks about why the Universe is the way it is, and applies what we know ...
- 14:14 UTC Space Fellowship Maintenance for Station Crew (NASA) - The Expedition 23 crew members aboard the International Space Station were busy Friday with a variety of maintenance activities after the departure and landing of Expedition 22 crew ...
- 14:11 UTC Space Fellowship NASA and NOAA's Environmental Satellite Now GOES-15 GREENBELT, Md., (NASA) -- Twelve days after a flawless launch, NASA and NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) reached its proper orbit and was renamed GOES-15. The latest weather satellite ...
- 14:09 UTC Space Fellowship New launch date for CryoSat-2 confirmed (ESA) - The technical issue with the second stage of the Dnepr rocket that delayed the launch of ESA's Earth Explorer CryoSat-2 satellite in February has now been resolved – ...
- 14:04 UTC Space Fellowship ESA and Thales Alenia Space enter negotiations for MTG (ESA) - The tendering process that will result in the supply of Europe's next series of meteorological satellites, Meteosat Third Generation, has reached an advanced stage as ESA invites Thales ...
- 13:57 UTC Space Fellowship ATK Successfully Tests Attitude Control Motor for Orion L... (ATK) - Key Milestone Test Performed at ATK's Elkton, Maryland Facility MINNEAPOLIS -- Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) announced that it successfully completed the second of two ground tests of a ...
- 13:42 UTC In the Dark Cantaloupe Island(s) It’s been a pretty exhausting few weeks, but now we’ve reached the end of teaching term. Not that I’ve got nothing to do, but I should be able to concentrate ...
- 13:20 UTC Cumbrian Sky New Dr Who trailer…!! If you have any emails to send, videos to download or blogs to catch up, do it as soon as you can, because the internet is about to melt: the ...
- 11:00 UTC Professor Astronomy Science bloggers lay claim to the periodic table David Bradley is a British science writer. Among other things, he authors and maintains the Sciencebase website and blog, he twitters, and he maintains a list of several hundred scientists ...
- 09:46 UTC IYA2009 Updates Could you name a planet? 2010 celebrates the 80th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto and marks the 1st year death anniversary of Venetia Burney Phair, the most influential 11 year-old in the history of ...
- 09:27 UTC IYA2009 Updates Explore the Universe Through Remote Observing During GAM2... One of the Global Programs taking place during Global Astronomy Month this April is the Remote Observing Program of Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory in Italy, with participants from around the world ...
- 08:09 UTC astropixie the fairy scientist the fairy scientist is an interesting four and a half minute video created by skeptical bob for the project reason video contest. "Children are natural scientists - filled with wonder ...
- 07:05 UTC The Discovery Enter... A Traveler's Guide to the Planets Episode 4 Today on Discovery Enterprise we present the fourth installment of the highly acclaimed documentary series “A Traveler's Guide to the Planets” to continue our grand tour of the solar system ...
- 06:14 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Massive Dust Storm Sweeps Across Africa Pale tan dust blurs the southern edge of the Sahara Desert across the entire African continent in this natural color satellite image from March 19, 2010.
- 06:14 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Solar Flare and Coronal Mass Ejection This ultraviolet image, captured by NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) Ahead spacecraft on February 12, 2010, shows a solar storm brewing in an active two areas of the Sun.
- 05:10 UTC Colony Worlds Carnival Of The Space Geeks (Crowlspace) Last week the 145th Carnival of Space was hosted by Adam Crowl upon Crowlspace. Posts ranged from close encounters with moon rocks and Martian valleys to future space vacations under ...
- 04:45 UTC Lunar Networks LRO/LROC/LOLA: Marius Hills Large Scale - The prominent Marius Dome field is a familiar target in amateur telescopes, changing almost from minute to minute 5 days after First Quarter or 4 days after ...
- 04:12 UTC Luna C/I: Moon Colo... NASA Images Lunokhod 2 Rover NASA’s busy Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has solved a longstanding mystery: it has found the final resting place of the russian Lunokhod 2 rover. The Lunokhod 2’s 37-kilometer journey ended after ...
- 04:12 UTC A Sky Full of Stars Quantum Leap: Charge! [tweetmeme]Guest author, Thomas Kennedy, features a twice-monthly series, Quantum Leap, wherein he guides readers through the fascinating world of quantum mechanics. This is issue 010. ======================================================================= In 1896, Henri Becquerel ...
- 04:06 UTC Lunar Networks LROC: Luna 21 Luna 21 lander delivered the Lunokhod 2 rover to the floor of Le Monnier crater in January 1973, LROC NAC Image M122007650LE [NASA/GSFC/ Arizona State University].The Luna 21 spacecraft landed ...
- 04:03 UTC Universe Today Will Discovery Be 'Go for Launch' or Forced to Roll Back? Over the weekend, NASA engineers will conduct additional tests to determine if Discovery can launch "as is" or have to be rolled back for repairs — which would mean a ...
- 03:59 UTC Observing the Sky Moon: Day 4 - “Invading Nectaris” I could not get to see the Sun today, as it was only in and out of snow showers which cleared in the evening (and me and brother were on ...