Tag Archives: NASA

Analog’s September 2011 Issue

The September 2011 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact will feature fiction by Craig DeLancey, Carl Frederick, Edward M. Lerner, Emily Mah, Gray Rinehart, Brad R. Torgersen... Read more [...]

Asimov’s July 2011 Issue

The July 2011 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction features fiction by Chris Beckett, Paul Cornell, Leah Cypress, Theodora Goss, Bruce McAllister, Josh Roseman, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Norman Spinrad... Read more [...]

NASA joins forces with the Boy Scouts of America to create a new Robotics merit badge

NASA and the Boy Scouts of America spent more than a year developing a new merit badge in robotics... Read more [...]

Space Shuttles to be grounded in California, Florida, New York, and Washington DC

NASA has announced the final grounding places for the three remaining Space Shuttle orbiters, as well as a move for the flight-test vehicle Enterprise... Read more [...]

Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop returning, with new funding; applications due in March

Applications for the 2011 Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for writers will be accepted during the month of March... Read more [...]

2012 WorldCon in Chicago, Illinois

The Chicago bid, Chicon 7, won the right to host the 2012 World Science Fiction Convention. Guests of Honor will include Mike Resnick, Rowena Morrill, Story Musgrave, Peggy Rae Sapienza, Jane Frank, and John Scalzi... Read more [...]

A galaxy, a space station, and four moons walk into the yard…

A family visit to light-pollutionless ruralia results in some wonderful astronomical viewing opportunities... Read more [...]

Gone Stargazing

SFScope editor Ian Randal Strock will be attending the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop, so he's putting the site on hold for a week or so... Read more [...]

10th AMNH Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate will ask: Moon or Mars?

The 10th annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate at the Hayden Planetarium (New York City) will discuss what's next in manned space, and include Kenneth Ford, Lester Lyles, Paul Spudis, Steven Squyres, and Robert Zubrin... Read more [...]

Artist Robert McCall Dies

Artist Robert McCall (1919-2010) painted the future for NASA, the US Air Force, the US Postal Service, and films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Black Hole, Star Trek: The Motion Picture... Read more [...]

Launch Pad Workshop to run again this summer; applications due soon

Applications for the 2010 Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for writers will be accepted during the month of March... Read more [...]

NASA reports LCROSS has discovered water on the Moon

Results of the planned crash into the lunar surface last month have been revealed: there is indeed water in the permanently shadowed crater at the Moon's south pole... Read more [...]

Rocket launcher Thomas J. O’Malley dies

Thomas J. O'Malley (1915-2009) was the man who pushed the button to launch John Glenn into space... Read more [...]

Analog’s January/February 2010 Issue

The January/February 2010 double issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact features fiction by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, David L. Clements, Michael F. Flynn, Richard A. Lovett, Mike Resnick & Lezli Robyn, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Eric James Stone, H.G. Stratmann... Read more [...]

The Perils of Obedience—a review of Defying Gravity’s “Love, Honor, Obey”

There are some good features to this episode and series, but they're dragged down, even in a weightless environment... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]