And possibly your Sputnik will get a chance to be launched to space. Isn’t this cool?

BBC Magazine describes here ‘How to build your own Sputnik’ and promises that they’ll investigate how to get your Sputniks launched.

It seems incredible that the technology that went into building the first successful satellite 50 years ago can now be [...]

As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis�s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples�water [...]

Few days ago, the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah has announced the creation of RAK Airways, the UAE’s fourth national carrier which will start operations by the end of 2006. I thought, what the heck? Four carriers in UAE, what do they need all that for? And RAK… how many traveler do they actually have [...]

NASA is set to unveil today details of its new space architecture for Moon-to-Mars trip. Last week SPACE.com and Space News reported that NASA will announce today plans to send four astronauts to Moon in 2018 and sending humans to Mars thereafter. On the list: A re-usable vehicle that’s safer than the shuttle; technology for [...]

On this day, last year, I said: Perseid Meteor Shower - This week, the skies above the Northern Hemisphere will be peppered with little bits of space debris that create the annual Perseid meteor shower. It could be the best display in several years, peaking Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

Once again, the geeks at Google have blown away people with their shenanigans.

Their latest gag has been to import moon maps (courtesy of NASA maps), thus making Google Moon.

Their reasoning? According to the FAQ, it’s the following:
“Because we couldn’t think of a better way to commemorate the first lunar landing, which occurred on July 20, [...]

China is planning to study the effects of space on sperm, by sending the semen from pedigree pigs into orbit.

Some 40 grams of pig sperm will be taken on board the Shenzhou VI spacecraft for its October launch.

Some of the sperm will be kept outside the spacecraft’s biological capsule and some inside, according to China’s [...]

Hours after a Nasa probe crashed into Comet Tempel 1, legal reverberations were felt in a Moscow court. A case which could see Nasa pay a local amateur astrologist millions of dollars in damages.

Writer Marina Bay claims that by slamming the probe into the comet, Nasa endangered the future of civilisation.

“Nobody has yet proven that [...]

Have you seen where do you live from space? Google Earth just launched the beta version. It’s amazing view. Give it a try, it’s worth it!

Happy 15th birthday Hubble. One of the coolest slide shows ever.