SF News Look Out for Falling German Satellite Debris This Weekend Broken up pieces of a retired German satellite are expected to plummet to earth, pretty much anywhere, sometime between Friday and Monday. The satellite, which is the size of a minivan, was launched
SF News Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster: Where Were You? Today, January 28, marks the 25th anniversary of the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster. Back in 1986, the Challenger came apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew
misc SF Mice Heading to Outer Space Next Monday, reports BCN (via SF Appeal), 16 San Francisco-based mice will be blasted into space to test the furry little critters' immune system response to zero gravity. The sweet 16, if you
SF News NASA Discovers New Way To Fly High by Amy Crocker A small bag of cocaine was found in space shuttle Discovery's hangar at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The cocaine was discovered Tuesday outside of a bathroom. "This is
SF News Happy 40th Anniversary, Moon Landing Forty years ago today, inside a Culver City movie studio, the lunar module parked on the alleged surface of the Moon, and out came a couple of guys who made history as the
SF News Mars Phoenix Lander Finds Water Ice Our sister site LAist informs us, via the Mars Phoenix Lander's Twitter, that water ice has been found on the planet Mars today. At around 5:15 p.m., NASA folks exclaimed, "Are
SF News Third NASA Employee Charged With Child Porn Possession Christopher Burt Wiltsee, 57, of Morgan Hill pleaded guilty this week to a charge of child pornography possession. This makes him the third ex-NASA employee to get busted fo having kiddie porn on
Arts & Entertainment Luke Skywalker's Original Lightsaber at Oakland Airport, Ready for Destruction Well, it won't be destroyed so much as it will be sent into space. And then vaporized, or zapped, or something. Anyway, someone sporting a Chewbacca outfit handed over Luke Skywalker's original lightsaber
