I am on Mars! …or, what’s in a name?

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

(Photo by Nasa, uploaded on Flickr by Jurvetson. See a high resolution version too!) The Phoenix interplanetary exploration vehicle landed on Mars. My name, David Orban, is on it, together with those of the other members* of Planetary Society. This is of course a rather indirect way of being on Mars, ...

Pete Worden invites online collaboration with NASA

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

I attended the speech given by Pete Worden at the International Space Development Conference, which was also held in Second Life on NASA's Colab islandMy question:Second Life is an inherently Global environment, is NASA taking this into due consideration, as it could draw on the input and expertise of a ...

New space launch company Blue Origin unveiled

Friday, January 5th, 2007

The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has had his space exploration company operating for some time, but very little was known about it, and the type of launch vehicle that it was developing. A few days ago the website of Blue Origin has had a major update, and posted images ...

The ghosts of space

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

Remembering the heroism of our space explorers - 1 Originally uploaded by david.orban. The space museum is closed. Not just closed, but in ruin, and abandon. Russia is a leader in the commercialization of its space infrastructure, as well as everything else it has, but in the meantime it forgot to keep ...