Archive for October, 2008

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Space Travel: $30 million buys Austin resident a ride on Soyuz mission. An Austin space tourist will blast off early Sunday with an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a voyage to the international space station.
Richard Garriott, 47, who made a fortune designing computer games, and the two [...]

Space Travel: Russia Leads Way in Space Tourism With Paid Trips Into Orbit. Space is for sale. Game developer Richard Garriot, who is scheduled to travel on a Soyuz rocket on Sunday, spoke at a news conference in June in New York.
While NASA looks ahead toward five years without shuttle flights and struggles to develop [...]

Next Mars Rover Mission on Schedule Even as Cost Rises: Despite another overrun that could push its cost to more than $2 billion, NASA’s next-generation Mars rover mission remains on track for launching next fall, NASA officials said Friday.
“Things are going quite well technically,” Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA headquarters, [...]

Three Bureau of Land Management biologists were held at gunpoint by members of a Mexican drug cartel after stumbling upon a marijuana garden in a remote area of Northern Nevada on Tuesday.
The biologists were surveying the north fork of the Little Humboldt River, near the Nevada-Oregon border, when they suddenly found themselves in a marijuana [...]

John James Audubon’s Species: Bird Paintings Art, in All Its Glory. In 1812, John James Audubon filled a wooden box with about 200 of his paintings of American birds and left it with a relative for safekeeping while he went off on one of his many trips. When he returned to retrieve the paintings, he [...]

Nobel Prize’s scientific background: 2008 Chemistry Nobel Prize goes to those who lit up cells. GFP expressed in nerve cells lights up the axons they extend from the developing spinal cord.
Many of the techniques that biologists use for looking at cells and organisms involve taking the equivalent of a static snapshot of the state of [...]