Although the main payload onboard the Kepler spacecraft consists of instruments to detect other worlds, a second package reminds anyone who may intercept the craft millennia from now of the hopes of the generation that launched it.

Chris Hall, from Virginia, noted that “This mission serves to expand our exploration of two of humanity’s deepest questions—are there other worlds out there like our own, and if so, are there other entities who may be seeking knowledge of us?”

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Team Italia hopes to win the Lunar X Prize with a swarm of spider-bots.

“Team Italia has evolved,” said Piero Messina, president of the Naples-based International Association for the Aerospace Culture (AICA) that is coordinating Team Italia.

“What we are trying to leverage is that most of aerospace community in Italy is behind this project,” Messina said. “We really want to give an Italian flavor to the undertaking.”

Source: Space.com – click here for Spider-Bot Swarm article

 

 

Former Hubble Space Telescope astronomer shares his view of the sky…and profiles some GOOD astronomy. This is a short five minute video that has some interesting shots of images returned from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Source: Space.com – click here for Hubble Telescope image video