Space Technology

A North Texas Family Has Sent Roses for Every NASA Space Flight Since 1988

It took more than two years following the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion in 1986 for NASA to launch its next manned space flight. Shortly before it returned to earth, a bouquet of roses arrived at Johnson Space Center in Houston. "I didn't actually decide to do it until the day the STS-26 missi ... More >>

In the Most Amazing Science Project Ever, a Sixth Grader Is Launching a Home Brew into Space

Science is Awesome has a story about 11-year-old Michal Bodzianowski from Colorado, who recently won a competition sponsored by the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education that will test the effects of zero gravity on brewing. There were a total of 744 science proposals submitted by al ... More >>

Gravity Is Massively Effective

Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity is Lightning From the Heavens

Eddie Bernice Johnson Wants the United States to Put a National Park on the Moon

Dallas congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson has co-sponsored legislation that would establish a national historic park on the moon, to commemorate the United States' initial moon landings and to protect those sites from future commercial moon explorers. In other words: Even on the moon, location, lo ... More >>

Here's What Texas Looks Like from the International Space Station at Night

The stars at night in Texas may be big and bright, but good luck spotting them over the glare of its increasingly sprawling cities. This picture was snapped by a crew member aboard the International Space Station, some 240 miles up. Here's how NASA describes it:

After 34 Years, Brad Watson's Leaving WFAA

Yes, true.After 34 years at WFAA I resigned today to accept job as Dir ofComm @luminantpower the largest elec power generator in TX.— Brad Watson (@watsonwfaa) March 18, 2013 Growing up, Brad Watson was a fixture on my parent's TV set. WFAA was their news station and, therefore, my own, and Wa ... More >>

Texas Lawmakers Bravely Stand For Astronauts' Rights ... To Hawk Space Souvenirs

NASA was perturbed when Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell auctioned his checklist from the ill-fated mission through Dallas-based Heritage Auctions back in December. So perturbed, in fact, that NASA general counsel asked the auctioneer to halt the nearly $400,000 sale so that proof of ownership could b ... More >>

Here's One Way to Get People to Victory Park: Bring NASA's New Orion Spacecraft to Town

NASA​The space shuttle's dead; long live the Orion Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle. That's the future of space travel -- the capsule that'll take astronauts deep, deep into the final frontier ... at some point in the near to very distant future. First orbital test flight's in 2014, depending on how far ... More >>

The Right Stuff, But Whose Stuff? NASA, Astronauts Tussle Over Items Sold by Heritage.

​Back on November 30, our cross-the-street neighbors at Heritage Auctions dispatched a celebratory missive headlined: "Apollo 13 checklist brings $388,375 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas." (Note to self: Time to clean out in-box.) But if you check Heritage's website, the listing for the historic ar ... More >>

Transformers: Baying at the Moon

Chicago destroyed, along with viewers' brain cells.

Hunker Down for Hubble

Comptroller's Office Looks at NewSpace Industry in Texas at the End of the Shuttle Era

Via.Space entrepreneur Richard Garriott When the space shuttle Endeavour touches down in a little more than a week, NASA's shuttle program will come down to just one more mission: Atlantis's launch set for July. It's the moment private space industry's been gearing up for, when America's space prog ... More >>

Local Album Release News: Kirtland Re-Issues Jaffe EP, Bowling For Soup Preps Eleventh LP, Here Holy Spain Announces Sophomore Disc.

Jason JanikThese guys are naked for a reason: They have a new record coming soon.​ Some quick hits on the album release front to pass along this afternoon...

NASA Enlists Caddo Mills-Based Armadillo Aerospace For A Boost to Suborbital Space

Mark Graham​Local private spaceflight player Armadillo Aerospace has always had a complex relationship with NASA. Like other NewSpace teams, they pretty much define themselves against the glacial pace and dense bureaucracy of government spaceflight -- but at least until there's a real market for s ... More >>

Chef Tell: Cooking for Buzz and Beyond

​First of all, TV fans, let me just throw you a cyber fist bump and wish you all a happy 9.02.10. Donna Martin graduates!But seriously, last night was the last set of "normal" challenges before the Final Four set off to cook their way through the finale. It was tense and yet surprisingly lackluste ... More >>

Rockets, Hookahs and Flamin' Hot Cheetos: Lighting A Fire At QuakeCon 2010

Photos by Patrick MichelsYears from now, they'll all be talking about that epic QuakeCon back when hookahs were still legal in Dallas.As Master o' Doom John Carmack wrapped his keynote sermon yesterday evening, the old familiar QuakeCon rhythm began drumming back to life, tap-tap-slurp, in the dim a ... More >>

Ten Years of Armadillo Aerospace Memories, Plus a Chat With X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis

This week's paper version of Unfair Park includes the story of Armadillo Aerospace, the eight-man team of rocket builders that's grown into one of the country's leading NewSpace start-ups. From their first days tinkering in a North Dallas loading dock a decade ago to their new home in a Caddo Mills ... More >>

With NASA's Future Uncertain, Dallas Rocketeers at Armadillo Aerospace Compete In The Race To Privatize The Final Frontier

Days Gone Bite: Space Food Sticks

​There was a 15 or so year blip in history when space--and massive government programs to explore space--was very cool. All a food company had to do was take, say, a powdered orange drink, slap a phrase such as "like the astronauts drink" on the label, and wait for the riches to roll in.Think abou ... More >>

Space...The Final Art Scene

Bonus MP3: Fate Lions -- "Astronaut"

Local combo Fate Lions has been around since 2007 in various incarnations, evolving from a rather pedestrian alt-country outfit to far more pleasing new wave/pop unit. Led by songwriter and front man Jason Manriquez, the band has solidified enough to record a full-length debut, Good Enough For You, ... More >>

Astronaut Jones

FWMSH offers a look at life in the stars

How About a Father’s Day Worth Celebrating?

The Whigs, What Made Milwaukee Famous

Friday, May 9, at The Loft

Space, Still the Final Frontier

Yes, you will be able to get your picture taken on the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise. And, please, don't pretend like you're not excited. Two space-related items, only one of which is actual "news." As in: Leland Melvin could have been a Dallas Cowboy. The former University of Richmond wide receiv ... More >>

Blast Off

See the relics of the Space Age

Blast Off

See the relics of the Space Age

Blast Off

See the relics of the Space Age

Space: So Not the Final Frontier

You know, I always thought spacesuits were terribly unflattering. Guess it all depends who's in the thing. There's a 30 percent chance the space shuttle Atlantis won't be able to launch today from Cape Caneveral, which so doesn't affect you. But should NASA have to delay its takeoff to Friday or pas ... More >>

Space Is Still the Place

Moon Tunes

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Rocketman

To boldly go where many have ralphed before

Last Rites

Ghouls and grief along the Columbia debris trail

Last Rites

Ghouls and grief along the Columbia debris trail

Coming Down

A "routine" shuttle descent winds up stunning Space City

'N Space

Lance Bass attempts to boldly go where no man has gone before. Well, no pop star, anyway.

The Right Stuff

Producers say Space Station 3D is "over the moon"

Be

Thistudpidream (Self-released)

Mir Has Two Faces

Mission to Mir reflects the changes since the Cold War

Love & Rockets

Andrew Beal spent $200 million trying to launch rockets without Uncle Sam's help. His dream went down in flames

Out There

Flickerstick

Mission implausible

De Palma went to Mars, and all he brought us was this messy movie

Spaced out

Rocket man

Former NASA engineer Tom Moser dreams about launching the next generation of spacecraft from Texas soil

Road to ruin

Deep Impact is a feel-good disaster movie

Events for the week

Moonstruck

Alternately corny and inspiring, Apollo 13 is about more than just a space mission

Supine science

Research subjects push back the frontiers of space by hitting the sack