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Blogs
December 21, 2012
The Apocalypse Day Food Flowchart: Where to Go as the World Ends
If you're reading this, then the world hasn't ended. Yet, anyway. And so, even though NASA confidently released a helpful, if pre-emptive, video entitled, "Why the World Didn't End Yesterday," it still wouldn't hurt to borrow a bit from panicked Russians and have some sort of food-related contingenc ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2012
Beaches Could Be 6 Feet Underwater By Century's End, Says NASA
Turns out there's going to be a little more ocean in the future. For surfers, fishermen (and women) and boaters, that might be a good thing. It might not be so good for beachfront property owners, piers, low-lying areas and Malibu-dweller David Geffen, however:
Blogs
August 6, 2012
Bobak Ferdowsi: Meet The NASA Curiosity Mission's 'Mohawk Guy'
As live shots of Mars rover Curiosity's Pasadena-area control room went viral, America was in awe ... over one guy's mohawk or, maybe, fauxhawk, depending on your point of view. Yes, as NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory celebrated the unprecedented move of setting a car-sized rover on the red plan ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2012
Curiosity Rover Lands on Mars
The NASA rover Curiosity landed on Mars tonight, setting off cheers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, which guided the car-sized traveler 154 miles to the red planet in search of signs of life. The landing was confirmed shortly at 10:31 p.m., according to NASA: NASA's Curiosity rover has ... More >>
Blogs
July 30, 2012
The Next Generation of Space Food: Vegan Thai Pizza, Hydroponic Gardens Chefs on Mars
Despite what those freeze-dried ice cream sandwiches from the museum gift shop might lead you to believe, designing astronaut food is a lot more complex than it might appear. Nobody understands this better than the NASA food scientists who are currently planning a menu for the prospective 3-year mi ... More >>
Blogs
July 20, 2012
Food News Roundup: NASA's Plans To Feed Astronauts, Mario Batali's Favorite Restaurants Peach Pie With Duck and Cherries
Zester Daily: A view into the life of a farmer for a better understanding of our food production system. Grub Street: An article exploring gazpacho with basil-lime granite -- and the rest of the menu at West Hollywood's new restaurant Duplex. Eater L.A.: Ramen from Tsujita, pork ribs from Ham Ji ... More >>
Blogs
July 12, 2012
Cedars-Sinai Borrows Space Camera From NASA for More Precise Tumor Extraction
Two of L.A.'s most prestigious institutions come together, today, for some cutting-edge teamwork: Cedars-Sinai is announcing that it has borrowed a special space camera from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to get a better look at patients' complex tumors. Hospital to the stars, indeed! If you're ... More >>
Calendar
July 5, 2012
Where the Stars Are
Two of L.A.'s most prestigious institutions come together, today, for some cutting-edge teamwork: Cedars-Sinai is announcing that it has borrowed a special space camera from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to get a better look at patients' complex tumors. Hospital to the stars, indeed! If you're ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2012
On Foie Gras: The Upcoming Ban, Los Angeles Chefs Culinary Creativity
If you're the sort of person who has a foie gras countdown clock -- 16 days and counting, as calibrated by some NASA engineer hiding out in a Périgord bunker -- you will be interested in today's feature food story, in which Besha Rodell considers the Last Days of Foie Gras. If you're a committed ve ... More >>
Blogs
June 13, 2012
NuSTAR: Here's How NASA Plans to Hunt Down Supermassive Black Holes, Take Amazing Pics
Of all the giant incomprehensible mysteries floating beyond our own teensy planet in outer space, there's one that reigns supreme: The matter-gobbling black hole, a monster trachea that promises to eat all your space friends and make them disappear forever. (Or, as defined by one NASA astrophysicist ... More >>
Blogs
June 7, 2012
Meet Mark Wallace, NASA's Interplanetary Travel Agent
"Thank you for having me!" he says at the end. "Any questions?" In a tiny, hole-in-the-wall art gallery in central L.A., a rocket scientist is wrapping up a talk titled "Getting There: Science Fiction ... and Fact." The gallery founder, wanting to add a bit of oomph to a space-related exhibit, had r ... More >>
Blogs
April 17, 2012
10 Awesome Photos of Space, From 'The History of Space Photography' Show in Pasadena
Four hundred years ago, stargazing was practically illegal. The Roman Inquisition sentenced Galileo for supporting Copernican astronomy, and most people still believed the earth was flat. Fortunately, science has since come a long way, and now, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena has made space e ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2012
Astronauts Crave Hot Sauce, Horseradish
While astronauts clearly get a kick out of taking advantage of zero gravity and eating M&Ms like Pac-Man eating Pac-Dots, what they want the most isn't candy. According to recent reports from NPR and ABC News, the men and women who boldly go where few have before constantly reach for a hot pepper o ... More >>
Blogs
February 21, 2012
NASA Seeks Volunteers for Astronaut Cooking Challenge
Are you unemployed? Hungry? Have you always wanted to be an astronaut? NASA may have just the job for you. The space agency is seeking six volunteers to live on a simulated Mars base on a Hawaiian lava flow for four months to test meals that could be served on an eventual mission to Mars, Sci-Tech ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2011
'Geminids' Meteor-Shower-Chasing Driver Crashes Mustang 100 Feet Down Angeles Mountain Road
bigoneepA view worth crashing for?Legendary radio DJ Casey Kasem's trademark sign-off is "Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars." Maybe, for safety's sake, he should change it to, "Keep your car on the road and keep reaching for the stars." A driver in the mountains ab ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2011
Red Moon Rising Tonight: Rare Lunar Eclipse Comes to L.A.
NASAToo bad this didn't happen during Halloween season. It's spooky nonetheless. So break out your favorite medicinal herb, put on a good jacket, and howl at the moon until morning, because a rare lunar eclipse is coming to Los Angeles. And not only that, but as the sun rises the moon will a ... More >>
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
December 5, 2011
New Planet Found by NASA Could be Suitable For Humans (or Aliens?): SoCal Scientists Involved in Kepler 22b's Discovery
NASAWith reporting from Simone Wilson. They're getting closer and closer to finding aliens in space, and not the kind who'll help you remodel your home for only $50 a day. And while we here in journo land are psyched to get the occasional minor scoop or a mention in LA Observed (and that al ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2011
Shuttle Atlantis Launches with Yeast Onboard
NASAThe launch of space shuttle Atlantis on the morning of July 8, 2011. It will be NASA's final space shuttle mission.When NASA's final space shuttle mission successfully launched this morning, along with four astronauts and thousands of pounds of jet fuel Atlantis was carrying some unusual ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2011
Al Gore is Wrong: Global Cooling Could be on The Horizon as a Result of Solar Slumber (Maybe)
NASADon't go changin'.Al Gore is wrong. So go ahead, pack up your things and move back to the coast. Global warming might not happen. Not that we haven't tried our best to ruin the planet. We have. And we had a good run there with the ozone layer, the great pacific garbage patch and The Edge ... 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
May 20, 2011
NASA Sting: Riverside Woman Tries to Sell 'Moon Rock' to Feds for $1.7M
Los Angeles TimesWhat dork in his right mind would offer $1.7 million for a big drab hunk of moon, you ask? Turns out the feds will -- but a Riverside woman found out the hard way, via cutty deal at a desolate Lake Elsinore diner, that they're not so much good for their money. The undercover ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2011
Endeavor Space Shuttle to Get Permanent Home at California Science Center in Exposition Park, NASA Says
NASAEndeavor.Updated after the jump with reaction from Exposition Park-area county leader Mark Ridley-Thomas. As NASA retires its space shuttle program, L.A. will get a piece of that history -- permanently. The space agency announced today that the California Science Center in Exposition Pa ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2011
NASA's SoCal 'Glory' Satellite Launch Ends Up As $424 Million Paperweight
APUp, up, and way expensive: Glory heads for the sea.As epic fails go, this one's a doozy. Call it a $424 million Glory hole. Because that's how much it cost to develop, build and launch the Glory mission satellite that ended up dunking in the water off of the Southern California coast early ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2010
Rose Parade Rules: No Tents, Fires, Horns, Pets, Alcohol, Drugs, Fireworks, Throwing Things, Unsupervised Minors, Suspicious Packages Or 'Unoccupied Chairs' Allowed
NASANASA's 2007 float: worth the waitBoy, the annual New Year's Eve campout along the Rose Parade route in Pasadena sounds like a barrel of fun this year! Police are warning they'll be stricter than ever on the exhaustive list of parade rules, including fun-extinguishing items like: "Throwin ... More >>
Music
July 22, 2010
The Continuing Adventures of Squeak E. Clean
The star-studded N.A.S.A. project by L.A.'s best-connected producer gets a remix
Blogs
July 22, 2010
What's Method Man's Cheap Wine of Choice? Why Did Tom Waits Want to Hang Out with Kool Keith? Which Rapper Moonlights As Lingerie Designer?: N.A.S.A.'s DJ Squeak E. Clean Tells It All
N.A.S.A. reloaded: Squeak E. Clean (front) and collaborator DJ Zegon On this week's print edition of the LA Weekly, Drew Tewksbury interviews DJ Squeak E. Clean, aka Sam Spiegel, aka Spike Jonze's brother, aka the man behind the star-studded N.A.S.A. project. Spiegel's N.A.S.A. concept album ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2010
ODB Lives!: N.A.S.A. Releases New Video for Ol' Dirty Bastard, Karen O, and Fatlip Track
N.A.S.A. Releases New Video for Ol' Dirty Bastard, Karen O, and Fatlip Track
Blogs
May 25, 2010
Pasadena, We Have A Problem: NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Kaput
NASANASA officials in Pasadena this week officially gave up on the Phoenix Mars Lander after the little tyke went incommunicado and appeared to be damaged by ice as it succumbed to winter conditions on the red planet. The spacecraft had already collected images of Mars and successfully compl ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2010
Sol Food: Sun Eats Comet, Not KFC
If you think the Double Down phenomenon is something, you should note that according to MSNBC, the Sun - you know, the blinding orb around which you are revolving this very second - ate an entire comet last weekend in full view of a space observatory and God and everybody, and didn't feel compelled ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2009
Get Your Total Solar Eclipse On
Photo via NASA blogSince the total solar eclipse does not have a publicist, I wanted to remind you that it is happening today. (That would be Wednesday if you're in China, which, due to the time difference is effectively Tuesday night in the US. I know. It's confusing.) At over six and a half minute ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2009
N.A.S.A. Unveils Great New Video for 'Whachadoin' Featuring M.I.A., Santigold, Spank Rock, Nick Zinner
What could West Coast Sound possibly write that would do this video justice? It features Spank Rock, MIA, Santigold and Nick Zinner. Need we say more? N.A.S.A - "Whachadoin?" Video
Blogs
February 25, 2009
N.A.S.A., Aaron Rose, Others Debut New Video Work for Flux Screening Series at the Hammer Tonight
something from one of the videos, but we're not sure from which Tonight at FLUX's screening series at the Hammer, Anti- Records' N.A.S.A. will premiere its new videos, which should be something to see. One reason perhaps is due to pure genetics: N.A.S.A. kingpin Sam Spiegel is the brother of legend ... More >>
Music
February 12, 2009
N.A.S.A.'s DJ Squeak E. Clean: Ready for Liftoff
Teams with Tom Waits, David Byrne, MIA, Santogold, Spank Rock, RZA, Ghostface Killah, Kanye West and others to create The Spirit of Apollo
Music
February 5, 2009
Beige Beef Breeds New Rusty's Supperclub, and Lucent Dossier Experience at the Edison
N.A.S.A. lands at Cinespace for Aoki's bash
Blogs
January 30, 2009
Coachella 2009 Announced: Amy Winehouse, Paul McCartney, My Bloody Valentine ... Throbbing Gristle! Leonard Cohen!
Yeah, so all the silly speculation probably isn't done yet, as Goldenvoice always adds a few heavy-hitters after the initial announcement, but the initial line-up is up. Click through to see it in all it's glory. We'll start analyzing it soon, but for now: Throbbing Gristle! No Pavement? Let the ... More >>
Calendar
October 23, 2008
Money Shot
Yeah, so all the silly speculation probably isn't done yet, as Goldenvoice always adds a few heavy-hitters after the initial announcement, but the initial line-up is up. Click through to see it in all it's glory. We'll start analyzing it soon, but for now: Throbbing Gristle! No Pavement? Let the ... More >>
Calendar
October 9, 2008
Earth Sucks
Yeah, so all the silly speculation probably isn't done yet, as Goldenvoice always adds a few heavy-hitters after the initial announcement, but the initial line-up is up. Click through to see it in all it's glory. We'll start analyzing it soon, but for now: Throbbing Gristle! No Pavement? Let the ... More >>
News
August 7, 2008
Space Race Two: SoCal Loses Fight for Private Space Terminal to New Mexico
State turns instead to manufacturing ships, suits, even diapers
News
October 4, 2007
Game Over
Quakes, asteroids, mass extinction � when the end comes, will it come from below, above or within?
Eat+Drink
January 4, 2007
Carte Blanche
Top Island
News
April 27, 2006
8 Reasons Why Going Back to the Moon Is Loony
Top Island
Calendar
January 5, 2006
8 Reasons Why Going Back to the Moon Is Loony
Top Island
News
August 11, 2005
Put a Cork in It
Top Island
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
January 8, 2004
Animating Mars
Spirit and the dream of life
Columns
December 4, 2003
Space(F)light
Sailing the solar wind to the stars
Columns
May 1, 2003
Surf Report: Billabong Threatens an International Incident
Sailing the solar wind to the stars
News
February 6, 2003
My Own Private Spaceship
Sailing the solar wind to the stars
Art+Books
July 22, 1999
The Lunar Shot
The most expensive photographs ever taken
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