August 1, 2008 - By Amanda Stiles
Late last night, my fiancee and I arrived in Wisconsin for our first ever trip to EAA AirVenture, otherwise known simply as Oshkosh. We're excited to be here.
If you are one of the ~700,000 people here at Oshkosh with us, be sure to join us for the Google Lunar X PRIZE panels that will take place today and tomorrow. I'll be joined by representatives from several of the teams, and we'll give the crowd a nice update on what's going. Even better, we'll let out just in time to go and watch the Rocket Racer fly.
Today's Google Lunar X PRIZE panel runs from 1:00pm to 2:15pm local time, and will be held in location #29, also known as "Voyager - Space Ship One." Not too shabby a location name, if you ask me!
There will also be a panel tomorrow, from 11:30-12:45 local, in a different location--location #5, the REMOS Aircraft Pavilion.
I'll also be doing a radio interview tomorrow morning on WOSH at around 9:45am.
If you are one of the ~700,000 people here at Oshkosh with us, be sure to join us for the Google Lunar X PRIZE panels that will take place today and tomorrow. I'll be joined by representatives from several of the teams, and we'll give the crowd a nice update on what's going. Even better, we'll let out just in time to go and watch the Rocket Racer fly.
Today's Google Lunar X PRIZE panel runs from 1:00pm to 2:15pm local time, and will be held in location #29, also known as "Voyager - Space Ship One." Not too shabby a location name, if you ask me!
There will also be a panel tomorrow, from 11:30-12:45 local, in a different location--location #5, the REMOS Aircraft Pavilion.
I'll also be doing a radio interview tomorrow morning on WOSH at around 9:45am.
July 31, 2008 - By Amanda Stiles
The next in our series from NewSpace 2008, Will Pomerantz sat down with Bob Richards and James Antifaev of Google Lunar X PRIZE team Odyssey Moon.
Part 2 after the jump...
Part 2 after the jump...
July 31, 2008 - By Amanda Stiles
Hey all, the fun's just about to begin. Stay tuned here for live updates from the press briefing.
Panel:
Michael Meyer
Peter Smith
William Boynton
Victoria Hipkin
Mark Lemmon
Meyer talking about the mission now. Says it's successful.
Mission being extended to end of fiscal year. Says there's plenty of power left.
More after the jump....
Handing over to Peter Smith, Principal Investigator. He's thanking everyone.
Phoenix will be investigating two new trenches. Possibly different ice properties.
Panel:
Michael Meyer
Peter Smith
William Boynton
Victoria Hipkin
Mark Lemmon
Meyer talking about the mission now. Says it's successful.
Mission being extended to end of fiscal year. Says there's plenty of power left.
More after the jump....
Handing over to Peter Smith, Principal Investigator. He's thanking everyone.
Phoenix will be investigating two new trenches. Possibly different ice properties.
July 31, 2008 - By Amanda Stiles
NASA will be briefing the public on the findings of the Mars Phoenix Lander mission today at 11am PDT. We'll try to keep you posted with any updates as they come in.
Expected is the announcement of confirmation of water ice on Mars. Popular Mechanics has a good article on this, out yesterday.
You can tune in to the NASA TV live briefing here.
Stay tuned.
Expected is the announcement of confirmation of water ice on Mars. Popular Mechanics has a good article on this, out yesterday.
You can tune in to the NASA TV live briefing here.
Stay tuned.
July 31, 2008 - By Amanda Stiles
After Monday's unveiling of WhiteKnightTwo, the buzz around Virgin Galactic (and personal spaceflight in general) is incredibly high. The guys over at Spacevidcast posted this video (which I'm assuming was produced by VG). Thanks for all the X PRIZE lip service ;)
July 30, 2008 - By Amanda Stiles
I've been remembering back to my early X PRIZE days a fair amount lately, but if you'll forgive me one more reminiscence (after all, we weren't blogging back in those days!)...
When I first joined X PRIZE (as an employee, rather than just a volunteer), we didn't have any on-going prizes. The Ansari X PRIZE had been won several months before, and the Lunar Lander Challenge and the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics were each still about a year from announcing. So, until work on the Lunar Lander Challenge and the X PRIZE Cup grew to be a (more-than) full time job, I got to do a lot of blue sky dreaming about potential future X PRIZEs.
When I first joined X PRIZE (as an employee, rather than just a volunteer), we didn't have any on-going prizes. The Ansari X PRIZE had been won several months before, and the Lunar Lander Challenge and the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics were each still about a year from announcing. So, until work on the Lunar Lander Challenge and the X PRIZE Cup grew to be a (more-than) full time job, I got to do a lot of blue sky dreaming about potential future X PRIZEs.
July 30, 2008 - By Amanda Stiles
I was going to post this yesterday, but was slightly too shaken (and busy). Yesterday was NASA's 50th birthday, and our friends at Google celebrated with this fun doodle:
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