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Star Wars Gonna Star War
2021-01-09 21:54
 2020: the year all SciFi events were wiped off our calendar. Our R2-D2 is currently beneath a dust cover, unable to attend the Galactic Outpost, SW Celebration, or even small Comic Con… Read More
Space Science Trilogy - The Formist Series
2021-01-09 18:51
Exciting News! And just in time for Christmas. I used to do a full recommendation of sciency type gifts, including the galactic chocolates, cosmological music selections, and of course my fa… Read More
GEO LEO Death By Acronym
2020-08-27 23:03
This will likely be the single most depressing addition to my SPACE TRIVIA series, but it's important to know. If you easily lose your Zen to not-happy space news, skip me and go read The B… Read More
Yon Flaming Orb
2020-08-27 21:55
It would take 333,000 Earths to equal the weight of our Sun, which loses four million tons of itself each second as it delivers nearly a kilowatt of energy to each square yard of the Earth… Read More
Joyful Earth Day
2020-08-27 20:41
I'm tickled pink and thinking green today on our big blue marble! I pledged my little garden and acts of blog advocacy on the Earth Day Network for the Billion Acts of Green campaign, and I… Read More
Galileo Figaro Magnifico
2020-08-26 03:50
On January 7, 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei discovered Jupiter's satellites Callisto, Io and Europa. He was on a roll with his new-fangled telescopio, as… Read More
Quips & Quotes V
2020-08-26 03:48
"When I was growing up it was really cool to be a scientist or engineer. We need to make science cool again." ~ Sally Ride"When you advance frontiers, heroes are made." ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson… Read More
Pluto & Friends
2020-08-26 03:45
Research time! So it started bothering me that I'm fuzzy on the differences between Dwarf Planets, Trans-Neptunian Objects, Plutoids, Plutinos, Scattered Disc Objects (SDO), Kuiper Belt Obj… Read More
Scale Of The Universe
2020-08-26 03:32
THIS. IS. AWESOME.Truly one of the most amazing pieces of visual art I have ever encountered in my life, and if you do nothing else on the internet today in your spare browsing time, visit t… Read More
Thy Chariot Does Not Await
2020-08-26 03:24
Here we go again! The chariot story is circulating anew on the Twitterz. In not one but two strings, well-meaning authors are attempting to persuade us that the earliest styles of vehicles p… Read More
AstroCappella
2020-08-26 03:24
I've had such a fun time listening to "AstroCappella" music by an amazing group called The Chromatics, who recorded their first CD with the help of a NASA IDEAS grant (Initiative to Develop… Read More
Quips & Quotes IV
2020-08-26 03:22
"Really, I have no idea why my acting career never took off." ~ Astronaut Garrett Reisman, who was in an elementary school play with Jane Krakowski"The universe is not required to be in per… Read More
More Moon Tree Road Trips!
2020-08-26 03:21
Seventeen trees down, 75 to go! I seriously bit off more than I could chew again. When I first learned about the Apollo Moon Trees, and resolved to go visit as many as I could, I figured th… Read More
SystĆØme Solaire
2020-08-26 02:59
A planet by any other name... Have you ever had a burning desire to know the names of all the planets in the Welsh language? I, for one, was afire with curiosity. Wonder no further: &n&hell…Read More
On The Moon In 1902
2020-08-25 22:32
Thanks to the joy that is YouTube, I've been watching the very first science fiction film ever created in 1902. In fact, it was released TODAY, 117 years ago!  Le Voyage dans la Lune o… Read More
Ancient Moon Shadows
2020-08-25 22:25
Is everyone ready for the Annular Solar Eclipse this Sunday, June 21st?  Charted a viewing spot? Got your glasses? Tracked the path of totality and calculated obscuration?Now imagine th… Read More
Technicolor Moon Rocks
2020-08-25 22:08
Moon rocks like you've never seen them before! We generally tend to think of the moon in... oh, about 50,000 shades of grey, as it were.However, samples returned to Earth are just full of s… Read More
Tinfoil Hats At The Ready
2020-08-25 22:01
From time to time, people ask questions about conspiracy theories or they email essays about Area 51, or they even link to YouTube compilation videos that claim to "prove" the NASA moonwalks… Read More
Moving To Planet Mercury
2020-08-25 21:41
For any international readers, you may have noticed American social media buzz yesterday about a curious little holiday we call "Thanksgiving", which we pretend is about Pilgrims and Natives… Read More
Lunar Ponderings
2019-11-12 16:30
A stunning anniversary just passed: 50 years since Apollo 11. We have 6 more Apollo lunar anniversaries to go, (7 overall in this program if one counts the non-lunar Apollo-Soyuz Test Projec… Read More
Pillownaut Muse
2019-10-12 01:49
After my follow-up DEXA Bone Scan last winter, and the nice article NASA's Human Research Program published about me and other past pillownauts in preparation for the new simulation protocol… Read More
WIN 2019 YEAR IN SPACE CALENDAR
2018-12-04 13:30
Baktun 13, Year of the Pig, Holocene 12019 -- however you count, enjoy the Gregorian grid with this beautiful collage of photos and facts, published in cooperation with Starry Messenger Pres… Read More
Pillownaut Christmas Picks
2018-12-01 14:00
Here it is, December 1st! Time to select goodies for the scientist, astronomer, cosmologist, Trekkie, Browncoast, Ewok, or astromech wrangler in your life! If you don't have these people in… Read More
DEXA SCAN
2018-11-21 16:37
This past week, I had an interesting milestone, and decided to share the results. I first did a "recap" of my years of experiences in the NASA Spaceflight Simulation program at the Flight An… Read More
Carl Sagan Day 2018
2018-11-09 19:50
Happy 10th Annual Carl Sagan Day!As of tomorrow, it's been a full decade of HAIL, SAGAN! Once again, colleges and museums have planned awesome planetarium shows, educator workshops, family a… Read More
Space Travel Still Sucks
2018-11-02 17:48
Even back when "Cracked.com" was all the rage with their irreverent lists, I wasn't always a fan of basic "Internet Top 10" lists. However, once in awhile -- and when my space blog was the h… Read More
The Little Boy In The Library
2018-06-27 13:00
Ronald McNair was African-American. For this reason, he was asked to leave a segregated library. He later became a NASA astronaut and the very same library is now named after him.HONK IF YOU… Read More
2018-04-01 15:30
After a startling announcement from NASA, space enthusiasts everywhere will be happy to know the "Penny 4 NASA" effort finally resulted in the space agency budget tripling to $55.2 billion d… Read More
Space Station INCOMING! Again.
2018-03-28 12:00
Hey, remember when Taco Bell used the fiery re-entry of Space Station Mir for an advertising campaign?!Mir, meaning "Peace" (or "World") in Russian, was a Soviet Space program craft, launche… Read More
StarTalk Live At San Francisco SketchFest
2017-01-06 19:29
Star Talk Radio is on the road again. This week, Bill Nye The Science Guy will be hosting their annual Sketchfest gig in San Francisco! I'm so flattered to tell all my readers that the StarT… Read More
Blog Retired
2017-01-05 02:23
Greetings fellow 3rd rock space travelers!As the NASA Space Flight Simulations have come to a close, and we do not know when they will re-open, I'll no longer be doing marketing or recruitin… Read More
The Future Of NASA
2017-01-05 02:11
With a newly elected president, and the possibility of a new NASA administrator, many space enthusiasts and especially those in the aerospace industry are reasonably wondering, what will the… Read More
The Future Of NASA?
2016-11-18 00:39
With a newly elected president, and the possibility of a new NASA administrator, many space enthusiasts and especially those in the aerospace industry are reasonably wondering, what will the… Read More
2016-01-21 19:10
Star Talk Radio is on the road again! This week, Bill Nye The Science Guy will be hosting their annual Sketchfest gig in San Francisco!  Lucky, lucky audience in California.Okay, okay… Read More
2015-11-23 13:30
For any international readers, you may have noticed American social media buzz about a curious little holiday we call "Thanksgiving", which we pretend is about Pilgrims and Natives preparing… Read More
2015-08-31 13:00
So there's this realty company named Movoto, and they somehow grew a sense of humor, despite being a realty company. Not only are they funny, they are space enthusiasts! On the Movato blog… Read More
2015-08-03 22:43
 Inevitably, after any moon landing anniversary, the hoaxers emerge from the timber paneling to bellow about shadows and wind and stars, and all the reasons why thousands of people work… Read More
2015-06-16 00:54
Anyone buying this? The 200-Mile High Club. Space agencies everywhere want you to believe it doesn't exist. And of course, as soon as I start blathering smugly that I don't court controve… Read More
2015-05-11 16:58
My last post wished the Hubble a happy 25th birthday and one of my pals joked over Facebook that hey, Hubble can finally get a rental car!  I had a funny flashback to Hubble turning 21… Read More
2015-04-23 15:49
Wow, it seems like just yesterday, we were celebrating Hubble's 21st birthday, back when the intrepid eye-in-the-sky was old enough for a beer!On April 24, 1990, STS-31 Space Shuttle Discove… Read More
2015-04-15 13:00
So today I get to hit you with the best three minutes and thirty seconds you have ever seen on YouTube. And if you're a fan of Star Wars, you will of course consider this an R2-D2 "spinoff"… Read More
2015-04-06 16:36
 On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to enter space. Secured in a small capsule named Vostok 1, he launched from Leninsk, Kazakhstan (now renamed "Baikonur"), t… Read More
2015-02-20 01:35
That's not a typo! Vacation!I'm sorry I have not been writing as often as usual -- but it's also gratifying to have so many new projects, even if they divide my attention!I'm going on anothe… Read More
2015-02-03 15:44
The race to Mars quietly enjoyed two giant leaps toward reality in recent months. A journey to the red planet poses many challenges: propulsion, radiation shielding, predicting what a ship… Read More
2015-01-28 17:11
The end of January and beginning of February holds an unusual amount of losses for our space program:January 27, 1967… Apollo 1 lostJanuary 28, 1986… Challenger STS-51L lostFeb… Read More
2015-01-19 19:25
Star Talk Radio is on the road again! And this week, Bill Nye The Science Guy will be hosting Neil deGrasse Tyson's usual gig in Los Angeles and San Francisco!  Lucky, lucky audiences i… Read More
2014-12-22 17:34
A stunning anniversary just passed, and it's been on my mind all weekend.On December 19, 1972, upon the splashdown return of Apollo 17, there were 12 men on planet Earth who knew what it was… Read More
2014-12-02 20:06
Readers and Tweeters! Some lucky SpaceTwit is going to win a stunningly gorgeous 2015 Year In Space Calender, hot off Starry Messenger Press, published in cooperation with The Planetary Soc… Read More
2014-11-26 20:06
Arthur Darris of Chicago, IL emailed me with the following question; upon discussion over the past couple days, he said I could use our [slightly paraphrased] conversation as a blog post. R… Read More
2014-11-18 14:46
Peak Meteor Shower time! Hope everyone is enjoying the Leonids! And what better time to appreciate our telescopes-- which often translates into coveting a newer, better, bigger one. Conventi… Read More
2014-11-06 13:00
Happy, happy Sixth Annual Carl Sagan Day!This year's theme is,unshockingly, "COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey," and once again, Florida's Broward College has planned awesome lectures, planetarium… Read More
2014-07-17 16:21
7/17CONTEST HAS CONCLUDED AND WINNERS HAVE BEEN CONTACTED.THANKS TO ALL THE AWESOME BROWNCOATS WHO PARTICIPATED! Browncoats! Spacetweeps!  To celebrate the Cosmos television series… Read More
2014-05-01 22:34
With my heartfelt love and thanks to all of my wonderful long time readers, I'm sorry to announce Pillow Astronaut is being put on hiatus while I contend with some elderly family members wi… Read More
2014-02-10 12:30
I wish I could stop finding stories about amazing women who made incredible discoveries, only to find certain men took credit for their work and dismissively assigned them to obscurity, unti… Read More
2014-01-27 20:02
I occasionally check the NASA Connect pages for new things... and my, what an explosion over the past year! However, their list is slightly out-of-date. Truly, they need someone like me to… Read More
2014-01-21 02:21
Around this time each year, since Barack Obama took office, I have written about his promises regarding the space agency. I'm skipping it this year. Moreover, I took a break from blogging al… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Readers and Tweeters! Some lucky SpaceTwit is going to win a stunningly gorgeous 2014 Year In Space Calender, hot off Starry Messenger Press, published in cooperation with The Planetary Soc… Read More

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