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Sally Ride, Resquiescat in pace
Famed NASA astronaut Sally Ride has died at age 61. Ride was the first female American astronaut, launching into space aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1983. Ride was 61 years old and had been...
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Neil Armstrong, Requiescat in pace
Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the surface of the Moon, has died today at age 82. Armstrong, together with fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, landed on the surface of the moon on July...
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Apollo 11 Launch
Apollo 11 Launched via Saturn V rocket. July 16th, 1969. (NASA/MSFC) Click for full size.
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Endeavour’s Last Flight
A number of galleries have been collected online of images of the space shuttle Endeavour‘s last ferry flight aboard the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. Endeavour arrived in Los Angeles on Friday, to be...
View Article55 Years Ago Today
October 4, 1957 — Sputnik launched, the first manmade satellite in orbit.
View ArticleSir Patrick Moore, 1923-2012
Sir Patrick Moore, the British astronomer, died this week at age 89. Known to many as the presenter of the BBC’s “The Sky at Night” program, Moore presented some highlights of fifty years of his...
View ArticleHerschel’s Symphony No. 17
Astronomers know of Sir William Herschel (1738-1822) as a renowned early telescope maker and the discoverer of both the planet Uranus and infrared radiation. Herschel was also an accomplished musician...
View ArticleDiscovery News Welcomes(?) Pope Francis
Discovery News welcomes Pope Francis with a video titled “Where the Catholic Church Stands on Science”. The history of the Church’s relationship with science is complex, mainly because the history of...
View ArticleMonday Links
“The Saturn Propulsion System (1962)” – The main engines from the Saturn V rocket that launched one of the Apollo missions to the moon have been recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, where they fell over...
View ArticleThe Catholic Thing: One God
My latest article is up today at The Catholic Thing: “An ancient Chinese myth tells of ten Suns that existed in primordial times. Prideful and intemperate, as pagan gods are often wont to be, these...
View ArticleScott Carpenter, Requiescat in pace
Mercury program astronaut Scott Carpenter has died at age 88. Carpenter traveled into space aboard Aurora 7 in 1962, as the fourth American into space and the second to orbit the Earth. Read the story...
View ArticleCoyne on Christianity and the History of Science; Hannam & Berezow Respond
Jerry Coyne is contesting the thesis that Christianity played a crucial role in the rise of the enterprise of modern science. At Real Clear Science, Alex Berezow & James Hannam (The Genesis of...
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Royal: Medicine as if Catholicism Mattered
Today at The Catholic Thing, Robert Royal writes about his recent visit to the conference of the Catholic Medical Association. To say that Catholicism has a role to play in medicine is to say a number...
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“Science Was Born of Christianity”
Via this story, I’ve just become aware of Stacy Trasancos’ book discussing the thought of Stanley Jaki. With the proceeds going to a good cause and the subject matter supremely interesting, I recommend...
View ArticleEinstein’s “Conversion” to an Expanding Universe
From Springer Select, reporting on a new paper published in History & Philosophical Foundations of Physics: “[Einstein] then fiercely resisted the view that the universe was expanding, despite his...
View ArticleEinstein & the Steady State Universe
Following up on the post about Einstein’s early preference for a Steady State versus Big Bang cosmology, here’s a new story, also from Nature, describing a recently discovered draft written by Einstein...
View ArticleMacDonald on “Cosmos”
Tom MacDonald writes at God and the Machine: “The final question to all this is “Why”? Why are we replaying the Bruno story in a documentary about space? What is the purpose? What is the result? Is it...
View ArticlePowell on “Cosmos”
As much as I hate to keep picking on Cosmos, its good to see that its historical inaccuracy has not gone uncontested, even outside of the religious media. Here’s Discover‘s Corey Powell asking, “Did...
View Article9 Scientist Priests
RealClearScience has posted a brief slideshow of nine priests who were also important scientists. See the list here.
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The Bible That Went to the Moon
The Catholic Herald reports: Nearly 200 rare biblical texts on parchment and vellum are among the artifacts that will be on display at the Vatican in a new exhibition. The event, which will be called...
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