(The latest installment in an on-going series, this post will recount relevant space news that you may have missed while out enjoying your weekend. It's not an exhaustive list--to get that, I recommend clicking through to the blogs in our blogroll--but it should contain the highlights, as least as I see them.)
July 28, 2008
Throughout the year 2005, my good friend and then-X PRIZE-employee Brooke Owens led a large team of interns in a project to build full scale replicas of SpaceShipOne. The Foundation hired a Technical Lead, Christopher Hackman, a local airplane builder, to help guide the process.
July 27, 2008
On July 22, the Google Lunar X PRIZE gang went over to the Google headquarters in Washington, DC to give an informal Tech Talk. Here's the video of that, split into five parts...
July 25, 2008
If you're a frequent space blog reader then you've already heard about this, but for those who didn't catch it, here's NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman on The Colbert Report last night.OPEN LETTER TO STEPHEN COLBERT: We've got an awesome remote controlled robot who would love to do an interview. Email me!
July 25, 2008
A while back, on the suggestion of friend (and X PRIZE Foundation Board Member) Gregg Maryniak, I picked up a subscription to Make Magazine, a fun, quirky little quarterly for folks who like to tinker with things or who are otherwise part of the Do It Yourself (DIT) community.
July 24, 2008
Mike, Nicky and myself at Google DC Office
July 24, 2008
Our friends at Space Florida, a Preferred Launch Site for the Google Lunar X PRIZE passed along the word that they are soon going to host an event aimed at bringing together a lot of the individuals and entities from the state of Florida who have expressed an interest in competing for the prize.
July 24, 2008
Will had a chance to sit down with Jeff Krukin of Google Lunar X PRIZE team STELLAR at the NewSpace Conference 2008 last week in Crystal City, VA. Jeff answers some interesting questions about his team, space ventures in North Carolina, and involving students in real space research and development.Part 1:
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