On Mars, I will be named Burning Kung Fu Jones!

NASA releases game to crowdsource all the data collected about Mars over 30 years of exploration and investigation. Sadly, installing Microsoft Silverlight is required, which will only gay up the whole affair. It hardly seems worth it.

Pretty cool

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.

Space Cowboys

Spacebat lives on in our hearts

"Bereft of his ability to fly and with nowhere to go, a courageous bat climbed aboard our Discovery with stars in his weak little eyes. The launch commenced, and Spacebat trembled as his frail mammalian body was gently pushed skyward. For the last time, he felt the primal joy of flight; for the first, the indescribable feeling of ascending toward his dream—a place far away from piercing screeches and crowded caves, stretching forever into fathomless blackness.

Whether he was consumed in the exhaust flames or frozen solid in the stratosphere is of no concern. We know that Spacebat died, but his dream will live on in all of us."