Tesla and Starman

So it's been a year since Starman the mannequin was launched into space in his cherry red Tesla Roadster with Hot Wheels model Tesla on the dash. The car is 226 million miles from Earth now. There is a really cool website run by Programmer Ben Pearson that counts Starman's distance as he travels at...

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We were published!

Did you know that we were published in Martian Magazine in September? It's called "Peace Tour" https://themartianmagazine.wordpress.com/2018/09/24/peace-tour-by-hawk-and-young/ It's 100 word story, called a Drabble, about touring an alien spaceship. What do you think the aliens were thinking of their human guests?  

Learning from Failure

We are all taught that failure is bad as we learn in school. You were grounded for getting Fs and rewarded for getting As. We love to report space victories, but the truth is, we learn from our failures. On October 11, a seemingly routine Roscosmos launch to the International Space Station went a bit...

New Constellations

Sure, you can pick out Orion, the big and little dippers, and the North star. Maybe you even know your other zodiac constellations, but those are all in the sky visible to our naked eye. But if you are mapping gamma rays, you can see many more stars in space than from Earth. Scientists using...

TESS discovers 2 planets

As we are kind of alien nuts over here at Hawk and Young, and as it's totally possible that some form of life is out there somewhere, we are so pleased to report that Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found two new planets orbiting 'near by' stars and 73 possible other planets causing dips...

India and the UK put Satellites in Space

If you live in the Western Hemisphere, you know all about NASA and SpaceX, but you hardly hear about India and ISRO - Indian Space Research Organisation. Since 1993, India has been launching satellites for other countries, contracting their reliable rocket as a taxi for satellites. They only failed 2 or 3 times to deliver...

Astronaut plugs hole in ISS with finger

This is not a joke pulled from cartoons, this is a real space story.   Sometime in the night of August 30th a micrometeorite struck the outside of the Souyez MS-09, which is a Russian spacecraft attached to the International Space Station. It is not a part of the return module, which means they can...

Sci-Faiku

You know what a haiku is, everyone's favorite poem behind a limerick because they are short and make you think or feel, and bonus points for making you laugh. They follow the 5-7-5 syllable scheme. Of course you know what sci-fi is, science fiction, that place between science and completely made up but plausible fantasy...

Alan Bean

The fourth man to walk on the moon, alongside the third man Pete Conrad, Alan Bean first went into aboard Apollo 12 and was the lunar module pilot. However, he worked at NASA for years sitting on his flight experience and bragging about his intelligence without a flight assignment. "Pete [Conrad], who knew me from...