"Good luck, Mister Gorsky!" Okay, there was never a "Mister Gorsky" and Armstrong never said that.  But everyone else i...

1968 was perhaps the most turbulent year of the most turbulent decade of modern history.  Assassinations, wars, upheaval - sometimes peacefu...

Nearly thirty years after the Challenger disaster, it is now coming out that the first "regular citizen" to fly on a space shuttl...

The crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia , who perished in re-entry from Mission STS-107 t en years ago today February 1, 2003

Neil Armstrong 1930 - 2012

Fifty years ago today, on February 20th 1962, John Glenn flew inside a Mercury space capsule christened Friendship 7 atop an Atlas LV-3B r...

I have reposted stuff on this blog twice in the past, on rare occasions. But never three times. This deserves it though (and no doubt wil...

The orbiter Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning, at 5:57 a.m. And so, after 135 missions that began on April 12...

Wow. Lots of history to be commemorated today. Now I'm being reminded that it was thirty years ago today that the first Space Shuttle ...

High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joi...

The Knight Shift and its eclectic proprietor would like to join the very many other admirers of Dr. Neil Armstrong in wishing him all the b...

Not really trees, but an optical illusion captured by NASA's HiRISE camera in orbit around the red planet. What appears to be a scatte...

It's not the first time that I've blogged about this. But a short film this good easily merits sharing more than once. And who kn...

(Sounds like a Weekly World News headline, don't it? :-) I'm praying that we will keep having clear skies until later tomorrow, ...

Sounds like a Marvel Comic character in the making, doesn't it? Scientists working for NASA have created a device which uses magnetic fi...

"...one giant leap for mankind." (And before anybody gives me grief over it, in the past few years audio analysis has determined t...

Remember how Richard Pryor's character Gus Gorman in Superman III (an "under-rated" film, as the guy in Office Space says) u...

When the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted into orbit two days ago, it might have taken this bat along for the ride . NASA technicians spott...

Twenty years ago yesterday the Buran (shown landing at left), the Soviet Union's answer to the American-made NASA space shuttle system,...

In no particular order, today I... ...saw the new James Bond movie Quantum of Solace (it kicks seriously crazy cool boo-tay!!! ) ...filmed ...