Angry Birds join Curiosity on Mars, with help from NASA

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Turns out there is life on Mars, at least in the world of Angry Birds. Rovio Entertainment, those masters of marketing and publicity stunts, launched an update for Angry Birds Space today that adds new levels based on Mars, plus access to content related to the Curiosity Rover. NASA and Rovio announced the updates for iOS… Read More…

How to propose to your GF and explore space with an iPhone at the same time

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We love hearing about Geeks like these…guys who just think up a creative project and go. This one resulted in a marriage proposal alongside a little space exploration, a strange yet delightful combination indeed. Inspired by the 50-year anniversary of John Glenn’s orbit of the earth, these three gents who work in Seattle’s video industry,… Read More…

Arizona man wins 20-minute space trip by walking around Seattle’s Space Needle halo

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Gregory Schneider, a 28-year-old father of two from Arizona, beat out more than 50,000 applicants to win a trip to space as part of the Space Needle’s Space Race 2012 program. Schneider was one of five finalists who participated in a three-day set of challenges this week, concluding with the recent law school grad competing… Read More…

GeekWire Radio: Our future in space, and why it might be closer than we thought

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Our topic this week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast is space, and our possible future in it. Joining us is Adam Bruckner — a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the University of Washington. He shares his insights and perspectives on the emerging era of commercial spaceflight, asteroid mining, the potential impact on the… Read More…

Name that Tech Tune: Fly him to the moon, temporarily

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Updated below with answer and winner. We’re continuing the space theme with this week’s installment in our Name that Tech Tune contest, but with a different twist. Be careful, because this one might be harder than it seems. Up for grabs this week is a pair of tickets to the GeekWire Summer Bash, coming up… Read More…

Pictures: Boeing drops its spaceship from 14,000 feet

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 Here’s another milestone in the commercial space race: Boeing says it completed a successful test yesterday of the parachute drop system for its CST-100 spacecraft, releasing the capsule from a helicopter at 14,000 feet. Boeing says the test, conducted over the Delamar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nev., involved the entire landing system of the… Read More…

GeekWire Radio: Mining asteroids in space, and finding the best food on Earth

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We’ve got all sorts of innovation to talk about on this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast. We start on a lighter note, talking about one of the more attention-getting stories on GeekWire this week — the JoeyBra, an undergarment developed by UW students, with a pocket for storing credit cards and other objects, including… Read More…

Rockets, robots and a big week in the ‘Silicon Valley of Space’

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We’ve had fun this week following the story of Planetary Resources, the new startup that plans to launch robots into space to mine asteroids. Their news conference at Seattle’s Museum of Flight really did feel like the opening scene of a science fiction novel. And in the process of developing the technology to retrieve natural… Read More…

Robots in Space: Live from the Planetary Resources news conference

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UPDATE: The news conference is over, but you can read our live notes below. Stay tuned for more later today on GeekWire. Coming up at Seattle’s Museum of Flight this morning is the highly anticipated news conference by Planetary Resources, the space robot venture that plans to formally unveil and explain its plans to mine… Read More…