Subject: NASA

• "Touch the Stars: The NASA Experience"

  March 26, 2009

• LET'S DO LAUNCH

  NO,YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A ROCKET SCIENTIST. JUST FLEX YOUR MISSILES.

  September 22, 1994

• The Outer Space Undergroud

  Arizona's quiet visionaries yearn to make the state a hub of commercial space travel

  February 22, 1996

• Feat of Clay

  Wallace and Gromit filmmakers tackle Gumby Noir

  December 18, 1997

• Park Belly Future

  April 16, 1998

• Disasteroid

  All climax, no plot Armageddon deserves to be sent back to the meteor showers

  July 2, 1998

• Best Place To Get Down-Home

  Historic Sahuaro Ranch

  September 26, 2002

• Mars Face-off

  Letters from the week of December 12, 2002

  December 12, 2002

• Mexico, Mars and the Man

  Letters from the week of December 19, 2002

  December 19, 2002

• Slap in the Face

  More controversy in the debate over an image of Mars

  January 16, 2003

• BEST PLACE TO SEE STARS

  Starlab Indoor Planetarium

  September 18, 2003

• Art Scene

  Current shows, exhibits, and installations

  December 29, 2005

• Chemtrails: Strong Competitor for Dumbest Conspiracy Theory Ever

  Most conspiracy theories are so ridiculous, it's hard to choose which are the least plausible or which faces the higher mountain of opposing evidence. Some seem within the realm of the possible, such as the ones that surround the assassination of JFK, the Pearl Harbor attack or the murder of Princess Di. Others, like the absurd theories about the 9/11 attacks, rampant alien abductions, faked moon landings, Jewish world domination and Biblical creationism can be dismissed by reasonable p

  December 18, 2008

• Honeywell to Begin Work on Next Generation Spacesuit for Moon Walks

  Honeywell's Glendale manufacturing plant is about to begin work on parts for a spacesuit planned to be used in future explorations on the moon. NASA announced in June it had awarded a contract to a Houston company, Oceaneering International, to design and build two types of spacesuits. One will be made for spacewalks and for space station work, while the other (prototype pictured at left) will be used on the moon. Honeywell broke some of the details of its role in the project

  December 19, 2008

• Coachella Artists Start Leaking

  The first batch of bands for the hottest music festival around, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, has been leaked. Confirmed Artists: the Killers, the Airborne Toxic Event, the Bug, Buraka Som Sistema, Crystal Castles, Drop The Lime, Fleet Foxes, Flying Lotus, Girl Talk, the Hold Steady, the Killers, No Age, Noah and the Whale, Late of the Pier, Los Campesinos!, Peanut Butter Wolf, the Presets, Sébastien Tellier, Themselves, Tinariwen. Confirmed DJs: DJ Gina Turner, DJ Hipnotic S

  January 13, 2009

• Art Burn: Cafe Carumba's Decorator Has Multiple Personality Disorder

  Cafe Carumba! in Old Town Scottsdale serves seriously tasty comfort foods, from hearty breakfast fare to Southwest specialties like Chicken Oaxaca and Habenero Braised Ribs. But while you're downing that Mercado Chicken Chili, don't look up -- because while the eats are stellar, the decor suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder. Seriously, this messed-up mismash of interior design can't possibly have been birthed by one person, unless maybe that one person was Roseanne Barr. 

  February 11, 2009

• You Heard It Here First: Yuksek

  Away From The Sea and right into your fucking skullAh, new music Tuesday. It's always exciting to note what new albums come out on any given Tuesday, especially so early into the new year. While today may be a particularly slow day in the American market, one French artist has released some of 2009's finest work to date. The man in question is Pierre-Alexandre Busson, better known as Yuksek. His album Away from the Sea is, without a doubt, one of my favorites of 2009. It is pure, perfe

  February 10, 2009

• N.A.S.A.: Fun Concept, Boring Reality

  That is some pretty awesome album art for a pretty average albumAs we come right smack into another Tuesday rife with new releases, I will choose to focus my energies on one particular release, N.A.S.A.'s The Spirit of Apollo. N.A.S.A. (North America/South America) is the collaboration between DJ Zegon (Ze Gonzales) and Squeak E. Clean (Sam Spiegel). Apollo has been hotly anticipated, due to its rather unique lineup of guest vocals. The album features the vocals of M.I.A., Lykke Li, Kanye West (

  February 17, 2009

• Serious Moonlight

  January 29, 2009

• Wardrobe Malfunction

  God help us, it’s back

  September 4, 2008

• Chafing dishes

  February 14, 2008

• Shadow Dancing

  Shedding light on old photos

  December 22, 2005

• Click Clique

  Flashes of brilliance at PAM

  December 8, 2005

• Monster's Brawl

  Turning Japanese in Tempe

  August 25, 2005

• Renaissance Woman

  August 5, 2004

• Turning Japanese

  July 8, 2004

• Draggin' Tale

  June 10, 2004

• Red Rover

  Scientists at ASU are the first to see new discoveries from Mars

  February 26, 2004

• Local Color

  MARS artists show their stuff

  August 21, 2003

• Kings of Beer

  A new suds squad seeks to build a roster in Phoenix

  August 21, 2003

• Fathers and Guns

  Gunfighters fire a round for Dad

  June 12, 2003

• Pleas and Protests

  Letters from the week of February 27, 2003

  February 27, 2003

• The Bleeding Edge

  A decade ago, Vertigo started a revolution by making comics for adults

  February 13, 2003

• Flame-out

  Challenger – now that was a real national tragedy

  February 6, 2003

• To Spite the Face

  Researchers accuse ASU's THEMIS of fraud and cover-up on latest image of 'Face on Mars'

  December 5, 2002

• Shoot the Moon

  Aussie-made The Dish illuminates eccentric scientists who helped televise 1969 lunar walk

  April 26, 2001

• Ground Control to Major Tom

  Blast off without leaving Peoria

  August 17, 2000

• Dance on Washington

  September 30, 1999

• Softly Into That Good Nitrous

  Why sales of pressurized laughing gas are sky high in Arizona

  September 30, 1999

• Eclipsed

  Arizona asteroid hunters were poised to save the Earth from Armageddon. Then a secret Air Force project took over.

  February 25, 1999

• The Hack and the Quack

  The "Phoenix Lights" made Frances Emma Barwood the darling of the global space-alien lobby. And it'stransformed computer geek Jim Dilettoso into a star in the UFO firmament.

  March 5, 1998

• RETRO ROCKET

  July 6, 1995

• FREON EASY

  ARIZONA'S REPUBLICAN LEADERS WANT THE STATE TO BUCK FEDERAL LAWS ON CFC PRODUCTION. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WEIRD SCIENCE MIXES WITH WACKY POLITICS.

  May 4, 1995

• HIGH-TECH'S MISSING LINK

  IS JAMES J. DILETTOSO A TECHNO GOD OR JUST ANOTHER FLOPPY DISCIPLE? EVEN HE CAN'T SAY FOR SURE.

  April 21, 1993

• Phoenix the Source of Most Balloon-Caused UFO Reports, Says NASA

  NASA can always depend on the Phoenix area for UFO reports. Our clear skies and large population apparently make the Valley number one when it comes to hysterical cries of alien invasion every time a research balloon goes up. Following yesterday's media reports about the earthly origins of a spherical, translucent object in the sky, we called Bill Stepp, head of operations at the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, to ask how many times NASA balloon launches spurred UFO

  May 20, 2009

• Hot Links: Fires in Tucson, Bullets in Butts, and Meteorites

  A fire burning in the Baboquivari Peak Wilderness area near Tucson has grown to 5200 acres. The blaze, dubbed the Elk Horn Fire, was about eight percent contained by Sunday...A Valley man is in critical condition after he was stabbed at a trailer park in Glendale. The man, 53, was reportedly returning some things to his 20 year-old ex-girlfriend when the two got into an argument about a dog. The argument allegedly culminated with a 20 year-old man stabbing the older man...Also in Glendale: a sec

  June 15, 2009

• Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection Worried About News Coverage (Or Lack of It)

    Touchy, touchy. A representative of Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection called us this afternoon to ask why our June 8 post about a roundtable being hosted by the group was so "negative." The woman started off by telling us that she's a journalist who was working for the Alliance and... we stopped her right there. The two things are mutually exclusive. Following our rude interruption, she explained that she's doesn't actually work for the Alliance, but is doing a favor for a fr

  June 18, 2009

• "Up From the Ashes: Phoenix Goes to Mars"

  February 28, 2008

• Hot Links: Kidnappings, Plane Crashes, and 15 Pounds of Meth

  ​Two children have been safely returned to their mother after an early morning kidnapping near 27th avenue and Indian School Road. According to police, a group of men stormed the victims' house, yelling that they were police, and forcibly took the children, ages two and eleven months. Police are searching for the suspects and their vehicle, described as a white Honda or Toyota with tinted windows...A Chandler-based company called Banda Group International LLC has won a five-year contract with

  August 18, 2009

• "Moon Rock" In Dutch Museum Actually Just Petrified Wood Probably From Arizona Desert; And The Conspiracy Lives On

  God Guns Free Speach​Here's something that ought to pump some life blood into moon landing conspiracy theorists everywhere.If you visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam over the last 17 years and thought you saw a genuine moon rock, get ready to be disappointed. Not only didn't the rock you saw come from the moon; it wasn't even a rock.Recent tests conducted by the museum confirm that what you saw was actually just a piece of petrified wood probably from right here in Arizona. Is there fina

  September 18, 2009