The Secret Space Program Conference (video)

Samertje; Wisdom Quarterly; Wallpapervortex.com (space photo)

(LINK) The Secret Space Program Conference, April 3, 2011, Amsterdam, Holland

• SECRET SPACE PROGRAM Conference 2011
  
  (ProjectAvalon.net) Members of European Ground Crew (groundcrews.eu) held an nternational conference in Amsterdam on Sunday April 3 2011.
  The Secret Space Program Conference (Disclose.TV)

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Seven Minutes of Terror (Mars)

Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)

America, intent on keeping complex multicellular life on Mars a secret, will land on the red planet tonight. Far from inhospitable, the fallen planet and what remains of its culture are inviting. But the shortest distance to its surface is driving to El Segundo where a nondescript building holds a portal in the form of an elevator -- but that is above top secret. JPL (the Jet Propulsion Lab) in Pasadena has an expensive distraction in its Mars "Curiosity" rover project. Pasadena's KPCC/SCPR.org is all over the story. Rather than showing archeological features or the strange and dangerous creatures (as mimicked in "John Carter"), the scientists will be careful to land this rover in yet another desolate area, a meteoric indentation in a desert.

Car-sized Mars rover "Curiosity" roaming deep crater (space.com)

It will -- if it can keep from burning up during the "seven minutes of terror" as it passes through the atmosphere -- look for water, nutrients, and maybe even traces of cellular life. Will its mission be sacrificed to discredit NASA/JPL's efforts to get us to Mars? Or will it be allowed to "succeed" and reveal the remnants of a soupy primordial sea now all brine and microfossils with a subterranean water store? Tune in tonight at 10:00 pm (PST) to find out!

   

Imagine landing a probe in the Sahara then telling the Venutians, "See, Earth is mostly sand." What's a Venutian to think in the face of photographic evidence? Just so, what are earthlings to think of Mars? (AFP)

   
Scientists look to martian rocks for history of life 

Joe Palca and Jessica Stoller-Conrad (NPR)

A rover poised for a Mars landing late Sunday night will explore higher and farther than any before. It's loaded down with experiments designed to test the rocks and atmosphere of Mars. Question 1: Was there ever life there?

Red planet, green thumb: NASA scientist engineers garden

Cosmic cab: NASA awards $1.1B to Space Taxi program

• Who will rule the business of space? Humans...or robots?
• Mars pop culture check: 6 things we need to know
• NASA's Mars mission challenges JPL employees
• Bookman David Kipen: California invented Mars
• Mars 101: What we know of our celestial neighbor

KPCC reporters have been talking to Southland scientists and engineers and counting down the days until NASA's most ambitious rover yet -- Curiosity -- prepares to land on the Martian surface. Follow the series online

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China rockets into space (video)

Steve Chao, Al Jazeera English, June 16, 2012

GOBI DESERT - China's latest space mission has successfully lifted off with the country's first female taikonaut. It is the next step in China's strategy to build a permanently-occupied space station of its own. It is now in a position to reveal the truth about the Moon, its archeological artifacts, stations, and occupants. The West's military-industrial complex must negotiate with the world's largest country and quite possibly its strongest economy if it has any hope of it maintaining the silence.

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