A lengthy article in Popular Science details some of the plans for replacement shuttles. Long, but interesting read.

An interesting article this morning on MacCentral details the rather complex set up for using an iPod as the backup for an FM radio station that has intermittent problems with its satellite feed. The basics are that they installed the 5GB iPod as an on-site backup at the transmitter so …

"It's a beautiful day on my asteroid... a beautiful day.." er.. maybe not. However, an article on MSNBC is reporting that asteroid #26858 is now Misterrogers.

An article on Space Today confirms that the Hubble is back in business after shutting down yesterday due to a gyro failure. Upon failure, the telescope went in to "safe mode" while scientists and engineers attempted to revive the gyro. Unable to do that, they activated one of the two …

I'm not thinking this is an appropriate counter story to the Mac users new iTunes services and software, but the folks at XM Radio announced that they will make available their satellite radio service directly on PC desktops using the cryptically named XMPCR.

In the first manned space flight since the Columbia disaster, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with one Cosmonaut and one Astronaut on board has docked with the International Space Station on a mission to replace the current crew.

SpaceToday.net has an article stating that Russian president Vladamir Putin announced the consideration of additional funding for the ISS on the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic first flight.

On a day that had most people focused on the Earth, a pair of Americans were high above the planet on a mission to reconfigure stabilization gyros on the International Space Station. One of the four gyros failed last year and was to be replaced on a shuttle mission later …

Calling it a risk to operational security, the US military has asked journalists to stop using certain satellite telephones. It appears that the phones, as do phones from other providers, calculate the user's position using GPS coordinates. Unlike other phones, though, these phones send that data (accurate to within a …

Reports from many news outlets over the weekend are showing that the latest recovered tape from the Space Shuttle Columbia are providing evidence that the heat damage to the left wing started very early in the descent of the shuttle. An article on Space Today points at many of the …

According to an article on Space Today, a Russian Soyuz rocket will take a crew of two (likely to be one American and one Russian) to act as caretakers for the International Space Station while we await the reinstatement of Shuttle flights.

NASA announced on Wednesday that they had discovered something on Jupiter even larger that the Big Red Spot. They call it The Great Dark Spot. The Cassini spacecraft was peering at Jupiter on its leisurely jaunt to Saturn and discovered it using UV observation.

According to an article on BBC News, China has announced plans to establish a mining base on the moon by 2010 in order to "exploit the mineral resources" of our satellite.

According to an article on CNN, China is planning a trip to the moon that could commence less than three years from now.

According to an article on Space Today, Russia has announced that they have agreed on plan with NASA to keep the ISS manned while the Shuttle is grounded. The basics are that the existing crew will return to earth on the currently attached Soyuz craft in April. At about the …

MAP, NASAs Microwave Anisotropy Probe, has finally given up its first results. If you're interested in topics like the age of the universe (13.7 billion years), this is a good place to get some additional info.

The Associated Press is reporting that NASA has found a piece of the Shuttle Columbia's left wing, which has played so prominently in recent theories about the shuttle's destruction. A report (not available) on Yahoo states that this part contains about two feet of the carbon-fiber wingtip plus another foot …

India has renamed the Metsat-1 satellite and all new satellites in the series to Kalpana-1 and so forth. According to a news release from the Indian Space Research Organisation, the Prime Minister of India announced this at a memorial service yesterday. The first Metsat satellite (Metsat-1) was launched in September …

Thanks to Amanda for passing along the URL to this site that keeps a very thorough FAQ about the Columbia disaster.

Despite the Challenger disaster this past weekend, NASA is continuing to move forward on some more nuclear propulsion research. According to an article on Wired, NASA is earmarking $3 Billion over the next few years to do research into creating a nuclear-powered electric engine to lift a package into orbit …