Carnival Of The Space Geeks (Alice In Spaceland)

Last week’s Carnival of Space was hosted by Alice Enevoldsen upon Alice’s AstroInfo which featured posts ranging from hot pink galaxies to our Sun’s evil twin brother to even Steven Colbert making history by having a treadmill named after him.

Interesting articles readers here might want to check out include:

• Bruce Irving of Music of the Spheres highlights the Mars 500 mission which will test whether humans can spend 17 months locked inside a tiny trailer–and live to tell the tale (without going insane).
• Ralph Buttigieg from The Discovery Enterprise argues a Venus before Mars approach, an idea that might anger a few individuals (note: I personally think visiting Ceres first would be wiser).
• Brian Wang from Next Big Future reports on (hopefully) promising steps by the private sector to bring about SPS (aka Solar Powered Satellites).
• David Portree of Robot Explores dusts off the NASA archives, exposing the agency’s former plans at retrieving Martian soil.

Be sure to read the rest of the entries, and for those of you interested in joining this weeks upcoming Carnival of Space, feel free to contact Universe Today for details on how to enter.

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