The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced on April 25 that Hayabusa (formerly called MUSES-C) has begun its long-delayed return to Earth. Though the spacecraft still has a long voyage ahead of it - it won’t reach Earth until June 2010 - JAXA engineers and flight controllers deserve praise for reaching this milestone. Through heroic […]
Archive for April, 2007
Pebbles on the seashore
Published April 10th, 2007 in extrasolar planets, astronomy, asteroids, moon, space exploration, sustainability, light pollution, Mars, dinosaurs and climate change. 2 CommentsI have three books to write. The new edition of my 2001 NASA publication Humans to Mars is due in a week and a half and I have two and a half chapters left to write. I spoke with the editor yesterday, and he says I can still make the fall 2008 publication date if […]