In 1997, we aimed a rocket towards Saturn and sent a 13-foot-wide satellite off on a mission to explore the strange worlds in our own (relative) backyard.
This month, NASA announced plans to extend the Cassini space probe’s Saturn sojourn until 2017—nine years longer than its original end date of 2008. Read all about it at the special report at Boing Boing.
Thanks to friend-of-the-blog TheGothBunny for the link!
Here are the buttons I’ll be taking to the SPACE con in April… The four on the left are 1″, and the one on the right is 1.5″
The International Space Station gets a room with a view! The London Telegraph has a lovely gallery of images of the installation of – and first view from – the new windowed observation module. I’m sure the astronauts will appreciate being able to look at something aside from the drab industrial interior of that space station!
