Space Technology

SPACE IS THE PLACE

Bask in the light of Shabazz Palaces

SPACE ODDITY

Tracy K. Smith reads with Tina Chang

BLAST OFF!

Visit the galaxy with 
Banana Bag & Bodice

Ashton Kutcher's Going To Space. Sadly, He's Not Staying

​There's good news and bad news: Fact-phobic Dude, Where's My Car star Ashton Kutcher is heading to space. Unfortunately, he's not staying.On his blog yesterday, Sir Richard Branson, the chairman of Virgin Group, announced that Kutcher would be the 500th person to get shot into space on Virgin Gal ... More >>

Leo: Skew You!

Optical tricks in an acrobatic solo show

PLANET ENO

Two tributes to a musical icon

Mitt Romney Hammers Gingrich on Moon Policy, Space Mirrors

Newt's America.​Earlier, we wrote about last night's GOP debate in Des Moines and Mitt Romney's proposed $10,000 bet with Rick Perry over claims that Romney's book was edited to change a portion about health care. This fleeting and insignificant moment overshadowed the real issues that were di ... More >>

SONIC BOOM

Artists and musicians take over DUMBO

Robert Burnham Jr.'s 1983 Testament: An Astronomer-Recluse Inscribes His Universe (Part II)

Burnham in his Prescott, Arizona home lab, circa 1960.​ Yesterday, we published the first half of a 24,000-word "self-interview" by Lowell Observatory astronomer Robert Burnham, Jr. on what would have been his 80th birthday. Burnham died in 1993 at the age of 61. He was known not only for hi ... More >>

One Giant Leap for Mankind -- in Central Park

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 24, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 41 The Age of Lunacy On a Muddy Meadow by Steve Lerner The Moon-In on the Sheep Meadow in Central Park last Sunday night came off as the world's largest outdoor multi-media program. Vying for spectator pop ... More >>

SIMPLY TRAGIC

Cynthia Hopkins explores the loss of a parent

TRACY, YOU SO CRAZY

Tracy Jordan, er, Morgan, for your pleasure

Programming Note: Edroso Getting Some Rest

​Try not to panic, fans of right wing blogosphere cosmonaut Roy Edroso. Our blogging champ is taking today and Monday off for some well deserved rest and relaxation. For today, please enjoy the musings of our weekend specialist, Julia, a skillful scribe formerly of Firedoglake. The Ed

New Yorkers Rise Early for Moon Mugging

​A group of die-hard New York stargazers met this morning in Inwood, in the northernmost tip of Manhattan near Spuyten Duyvil Creek, to watch the LCROSS lunar probe crash into the surface of the moon. The mission's objective is to see if there is water on the moon. Jason Kendall, the founder ... More >>

How Do You Spell Progress? P-E-E

Astronauts aboard the space station toasted themselves and their colleagues after the successful completion of a recycling system that transforms urine and sweat into potable water. Foregoing champagne, the spacemen drank to the event by sipping some of the very water that had been recycled from t ... More >>

FOOLING AROUND

Parker Posey reads Miranda July

DYNAMIC DUO

Yuk it up with Chicago's finest

Big Dipper, Still Fetching After All These Years

Tracing these forgotten noisemakers' hooky, otherworldly racket

'Loverboy'

French Fries and Fruit Flies

Not Yesterday Once More

Nation

Do You Believe?