Snow at 23,000 feet
Snow and ice brought much of UK traffic to a standstill today. I flew back home from Edinburgh late afternoon just as the worst of the weather started. Managed to…
January 2004
Remembering Russia’s Venera probes
With all the recent excitement about Mars many people will be surprised to know that Russia has successfully landed 10 probes, yes 10, on the surface of Venus between 1975…
Outliner for Sony Ericsson P900
I’ve been on the lookout for and have now found an outliner for the P900. Projekt by Kylom is a nice looking and well specced outliner. Projekt allows for styling…
Justifying the cost of space travel
The BBC has conducted a vox pop survey on whether the cost of the recent (and future) Mars expeditions can be justified. Not surprisingly opinion is mixed and split between…
Mars Opportunity
Amazing! NASA does it again and successfully lands the Opportunity rover onto the surface of Mars. The first pictures are already coming back. The safe landing of these two probes…