Seattle gamers jam out with NASA In the span of 48 hours, Seattle-based independent game developers created working prototypes of computer games with help from NASA.… Read More
From Space to SOPA: 10 Tech Triumphs of 2012 Rovers, particles, and skydiving from the edge of space. And that was just the beginning. Earlier this week, GeekWire documented… Read More
Podcast Podcast: Space Shuttle Trainer and beyond, with Museum of Flight CEO Doug King A week from today, on Nov. 10, the Space Shuttle Trainer will make its official debut at the Museum of Flight… Read More
Boeing wants to take down space junk with clouds of gas Orbital debris, also known as space junk, is a problem that many people in government and the commercial space industry… Read More
No borders: Space heroes join together for epic night They were all up on stage when the cosmonaut Valery Kubasov was introduced. With a lapel full of medals he strode… Read More
Museum of Flight lands trove of personal papers from NASA icon George Abbey They arrived at Seattle’s Museum of Flight in more than 100 boxes — nearly four decades worth of personal papers… Read More
Photos: A rare peek inside the Space Shuttle trainer Some people in the Seattle region might have been disappointed last year when we didn’t land a real Space Shuttle.… Read More
‘NASA and We Know It’: Seattle team’s video goes viral You know you’re doing something right when your video about the latest NASA mission gets retweeted by NASA to its more… Read More
Amazon’s cloud powering NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover Amazon, the online super-retailer and South Lake Union Overlord, has the cloud computing system that best suits NASA’s latest and… Read More
Dear NASA: Nice work landing on Mars — maybe now you should dump Windows XP? Attention, Microsoft: It’s probably time to send a sales rep to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A video by Boing Boing,… Read More
Super awesome ‘Curiosity’ approaches Mars, set for ‘Seven Minutes of Terror’ The plan to land the roving space lab Curiosity on Mars this weekend is the stuff of the wildest imaginations.… Read More
The Super Guppy has landed: Scenes from the delivery of our Space Shuttle replica Updated at bottom with picture of the crew compartment after it was unwrapped. We (and our kids) had a great… Read More
Space Nerds Rejoice! The Super Guppy is on its way Calling all space-exploration enthusiasts, aerospace aficionados and other flight geeks: the Museum of Flight announced today that a vital piece… Read More
Pictures: Boeing drops its spaceship from 14,000 feet Here’s another milestone in the commercial space race: Boeing says it completed a successful test yesterday of the parachute drop… Read More
Mining asteroids: The official word (and videos) from Planetary Resources Planetary Resources, a Bellevue-based startup backed by big names in space, technology and movies, has grabbed the attention of the… Read More
Space robot company may pull an asteroid into orbit More details emerged today about Planetary Resources, and the Bellevue-based startup’s plans are sounding more and more like something out… Read More
First piece of Seattle’s Space Shuttle Trainer arrives Seattle’s Museum of Flight today unpacked the first piece of its new Space Shuttle Trainer, unveiling one of three engine… Read More
Bezos’ Blue Origin prepares to test unique system for aborting rocket launches Blue Origin, the space venture backed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is pushing ahead with development and testing of its… Read More
Q&A: Charles Simonyi on the magic of space and the ‘coziness’ of the trip home Seattle’s Museum of Flight this week dedicated its new Charles Simonyi Space Gallery, named after the former Microsoft engineer and… Read More
Congratulations, Seattle: You’re getting a space toilet It just kept getting better and better at Seattle’s Museum of Flight today. First former, Microsoft engineer Charles Simonyi announced… Read More
Seattle’s Museum of Flight getting a Soyuz spacecraft, courtesy Charles Simonyi Seattle’s Museum of Flight lost out in the competition to exhibit a Space Shuttle orbiter, but it turns out it… Read More
Bezos’ Blue Origin declines to testify at U.S. House hearing Participants in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program — private companies working on spacecraft to take U.S. astronauts to the International Space… Read More
LaserMotive to work on NASA power-beaming project LaserMotive, a company south of Seattle developing ways of beaming power via lasers, has been named as one of the… Read More
Seattle’s Museum of Flight questions data used by NASA to pick homes for retired shuttles NASA staffers understated attendance for Seattle’s Museum of Flight and didn’t count Canadian visitors in their measure of the region’s… Read More
NASA report shows why Seattle didn’t land a Space Shuttle Seattle’s Museum of Flight was among the top contenders this spring for a decommissioned Space Shuttle — placing well ahead of many… Read More
Pic of the Day: Juno takes off for Jupiter on an Atlas V Hey, at least the end of the Space Shuttle Era doesn’t mean the end of spectacular blast-offs. That’s an Atlas… Read More
Branson, Allen, Bezos gear up for the private space race At the very end of his recent autobiography, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen briefly teases ahead to a future project —… Read More
End of the Space Shuttle era: Tracking the Atlantis launch Weather permitting, NASA is less than an hour away from the scheduled launch of Atlantis, the final mission in the… Read More
Nerd Notes: Facebook plays dirty, squids in space and Batman sweats it up Facebook hired a PR firm to publicly hate on Google. Wow, Facebook really didn’t Like Google’s +1. Cell phones are… Read More
Naveen Jain’s next big thing: Own a piece of the moon? Naveen Jain is looking to save planet Earth by reaching for the moon. The Seattle Internet entrepreneur emerged today as… Read More
