Tag: Space
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Podcast: How to get famous on YouTube, implant RFID chips, and travel to space
Matt Harding in the KIRO-FM studios. (Erynn Rose photo) This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we’re revisiting a few of our favorite guest segments with highlights from some of our most interesting interviews over the past several months. The common thread: Each of these guests inspired us to think differently or bigger…
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SpaceJump sets new bar for daredevils, brand managers
Apparently, Red Bull really does give you wings. At least it certainly seemed that way Sunday when Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner inched out of his capsule from 128,100 feet high in the sky and began a record-setting 24-mile fall back to Earth. Felix starts his historic jump. Credit: Red Bull Stratos It was a historic…
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Angry Birds join Curiosity on Mars, with help from NASA
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…
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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 greatest mission to Mars — storing images and data from the space rover Curiosity’s mission. As reported by the LA Times, NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory picked Amazon’s web services for its Mars Exploration Rover and Mars…
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How to propose to your GF and explore space with an iPhone at the same time
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,…
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SpaceX and beyond: Latest from the new space race
The docking of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule with the International Space Station is a landmark for the private space industry, marking the first time a commercial spacecraft has flown a mission to the International Space Station, to deliver supplies. The SpaceX Falcon 9 carries the Dragon capsule to orbit, launching last week from Cape Canaveral. (Credit:…
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Arizona man wins 20-minute space trip by walking around Seattle’s Space Needle halo
Just a nice stroll around the Space Needle 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,…
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GeekWire Radio: Our future in space, and why it might be closer than we thought
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…
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GeekWire Radio: Mining asteroids in space, and finding the best food on Earth
We’ve got all sorts of innovation to talk about on this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast. Chaitanya Sareen, the CEO of startup Chewsy 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…
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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 of a science fiction novel. One idea the company is considering: Bringing an asteroid into orbit near Earth to allow robots to mine it for precious metals, according to a New York Times article today…