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  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Elon Musk's L.A.-Based SpaceX to Send Private Spacecraft to International Space Station

    SpaceXDragon.​The Space Shuttle might be a relic of the past, but that doesn't mean America isn't still going to space. More and more, it's becoming a private affair. Elon Musk's Hawthorne-based SpaceX was given a preliminary green light by NASA today for its second space mission. This one wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    Domino's To Open Pizza Shop on The Moon

    Source images from dominos.jpThe Japanese out-innovate America? Yes, they do!​ MEMORANDUM From: Shuji Sakai, LA Weekly To: Scott Oelkers, C.E.O. of Dominos Pizza Japan In re: Your wacky video to build a Domino's on the moon. Dear Mr. Oelkers: We realize you planned and spent the money on y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    EXCLUSIVE Interview: Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull Talks About Aqualung, His Duet with an Astronaut and Why He Doesn't Attend Concerts

    Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.​In 1967, Ian Anderson traded a Fender Stratocaster that previously belonged to Lemmy from Motorhead for a flute, since he felt he would never be as good of a guitar player as Eric Clapton. The rest is history. We caught up with Anderson to chat about the album Aq ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Welcome Back to Earth, Space Shuttle Endeavor! Next Stop: Los Angeles (VIDEO)

    Space Shuttle Endeavor -- soon to be horizontal, en route to LAX.​We, along with Tucson massacre survivor Gabrielle Giffords, were relieved to see NASA's shuttle Endeavor make a safe landing in Florida just after midnight. (Video evidence after the jump.) Hats off to Mark Kelly, Giffords' loya ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    Studly Astronaut From L.A. County High School To Command NASA's 'Discovery' Mission

    NASATemple City High, Class of 1978​Updated after the jump: NASA has postponed the 39th and final Discovery mission until at least Nov. 30. Well, that was anticlimactic. Originally posted at 11:04 a.m. Venice has Morrison; Long Beach has Snoop; Compton has the venerable Coolio. Now, the San ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    The Next Wave of Fast Food: The Sushi Popper?

    Sushi PopperSushi on a Stick!​ Here's a pop quiz: Name a few items, food or otherwise, that are sold in a tube. Toothpaste? Check. Push Pops? Double check. Yoplait Go-gurt? Yuck (but a check nonetheless). Soon we can add sushi to that list as culinary entrepreneurs Lucas Furst and Evan Kaye a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Food In Space: German Chef Cooks For The International Space Station

    It's been 40 years since the lunar landing, when the idea of food in space suddenly became more fascinating than, well, the food on your plate. Remember Space Food Sticks and Tang? (Check out the old commercials, on YouTube, after the jump.) These days space food has gone more upscale than, say, Ast ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    Beer From Outer Space: Sapporo's Barley "Space Beer" -- In Space, No One Can Hear You Barf

    ​Yes. It's beer. From outer space. Just when you think they can't possibly top themselves with out-of-this-world product tomfoolery, the Japanese have done it again. Sapporo sent up some barley to the International Space Station a few years ago. They grew it for five months. Then they made i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    U2 at the Rose Bowl: Concert Porn for the Masses

    It was cool. It was a big Happening with flashing lights, lots of color, inspiration, 100,000 people screaming along in unison, moved by the pure ... spectacle of it. If we were in North Korea, these songs would have been about the Supreme Leader and we would have all been flashing colored placards ... More >>

  • News

    April 27, 2006

    8 Reasons Why Going Back to the Moon Is Loony

    It was cool. It was a big Happening with flashing lights, lots of color, inspiration, 100,000 people screaming along in unison, moved by the pure ... spectacle of it. If we were in North Korea, these songs would have been about the Supreme Leader and we would have all been flashing colored placards ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2006

    8 Reasons Why Going Back to the Moon Is Loony

    It was cool. It was a big Happening with flashing lights, lots of color, inspiration, 100,000 people screaming along in unison, moved by the pure ... spectacle of it. If we were in North Korea, these songs would have been about the Supreme Leader and we would have all been flashing colored placards ... More >>

  • News

    August 11, 2005

    Put a Cork in It

    It was cool. It was a big Happening with flashing lights, lots of color, inspiration, 100,000 people screaming along in unison, moved by the pure ... spectacle of it. If we were in North Korea, these songs would have been about the Supreme Leader and we would have all been flashing colored placards ... More >>

  • News

    October 14, 2004

    7-Up Up and Away

    Corporate sponsorship, civilian astronauts and inflatable space hotels follow in X Prize’s jet wash

  • Columns

    December 4, 2003

    Space(F)light

    Sailing the solar wind to the stars

  • News

    February 13, 2003

    The Back Story

    Judith Lewis

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