The Commercial Crew Program (CCP) is a NASA program that aims to help the development of commercial space transportation. A collaboration with private companies will give the opportunity to reach the International Space Station and the low earth orbit and back in a reliable, economical and safe manner. The agency has announced the names of companies that will be funded to develop spacecrafts capable of carrying people into orbit.
The novel “Cryoburn” by Lois McMaster Bujold was published for the first time in 2010. It’s part of the Vorkosigan saga.
The people of the planet Kibou-daini are obsessed with death and to try to defeat they go into hibernation after their death in the hope that one day someone can find a way to bring them back to life. One day, one of the planet’s corporations that provide cryogenic services decides to expand offering them on the planet Komarr. Because Barrayar’s Empress is native of Komarr, the issue quickly reaches the ear of Emperor Gregor, who decides to send on Kibou-daini his trusted Lord Auditor Miles Vorkosigan to investigate.
While at a cryogenics conference on Kibou-daini, Miles is involved an abduction attempt with other people. He escapes the attempt but is confused because of a drug that he was injected and finds himlself underground, where a group of homeless people live. There he meets a young boy named Jin, who helps him understand the unique social and political situation of the planet.
“The Hand of Fear” is an adventure of the fourteenth season of “Doctor Who” classic series which aired in 1976 featuring the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith. It follows “The Masque of Mandragora” and it’s a four parts adventure written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin and directed by Lennie Mayne.
On the planet Kastria, a criminal named Eldrad is sentenced to death. A pod with him on board is disintegrated but on of his hands remains almost intact.
Many millennia later, the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) returns to the Earth in the present along with Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) but they land in a quarry just when an explosion is about to occur. Sarah Jane gets buried in the rubble but gets away with just a few bruises however when she gets rescued she’s clinging to a strange fossil hand.
The mission of the Mars Rover Curiosity on the red planet is just beginning but already represents a triumph of human ingenuity. Many comments in the media focused on the search for Martian life forms but its mission is much broader and the knowledge that it will provide could be vital in order to establish colonies on Mars someday.
A little while ago, the Mars Rover Curiosity, also known as the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), successfully landed on Mars, in Gale Crater, an ancient crater named after astronomer Walter Frederick Gale, who observed the red planet in the nineteenth century. The Mars Rover Curiosity is the biggest and most sophisticated robots sent to Mars to date. It’s three times heavier than the Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity for a total of about 900 kg (about 2,000 pounds) and is equipped with instruments that are obviously more advanced.
