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Lost in Space

A cinematic history of Mars

It might not help you understand Curiosity's mission

A brief cinematic history of Mars

This Sunday, the most ambitious mission to Mars thus far will land on the red planet. The Curiosity Rover is on a two-year mission to look for signs of life, study its climate and geology and collect data that might help future manned missions. The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is hosting a li ... More >>

A Red Day

Space out at Yuri's Night at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Star Trek and Star Wars and all that descended from them inured us to the real hardships of space travel by making it look so easy. But what was it really like for Yuri Gagarin, the first man to ever leave Earth's atmosphere and orbit the planet? The Soviet cosmonaut took off in his Vostok craft on ... More >>

Reader: Telluride Mountainfilm program looks out of this world

Telluride just announced the focus of its 34th annual Mountainfilm festival program over Memorial Day weekend -- and it's the population explosion. One reader is ready to make some space here on Earth:

60 Minutes in Space: Museum of Nature and Science has an out-of-this-world new series

What do you get when you combine a super-massive black hole, an eight-year-old Mars Rover, uncharted planets...and a couple of geniuses? 60 Minutes in Space, which debuts at 7 p.m. tonight in the Gates Planetarium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

We talk with DMNS Curator of Space Science Dr. Ka Chun Yu about Moon

​The Sci-Fi Film Series is getting down to its final two weeks, and this Wednesday, they'll be showing one of our favorites, Moon, at 7 p.m. at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. The purpose of the series is pretty simple: show off some great science fiction movies and provide an intellectual intro ... More >>

When NASA's space shuttle program dies tomorrow, a little of the American dream dies with it

Take one last look.​It was former President George W. Bush who enacted the end of NASA's space shuttle program, set for this year, but he did so in order to make way for a new program, which he promised would usher in new technology, bring humans to Mars and give new breath to the dying space ... More >>

Woody Paige repeats denial that he plagiarized Dan Le Batard, rejects claim by Norm Clarke

Woody Paige.​Update below: Last week, Denver Post columnist Woody Paige admitted using quotes without attribution from a piece by SportsBusiness Journal's John Ourand. In the same item, he also denied an old claim by sportswriter Dan Le Batard that he'd plagiarized him back in the '90s. Now, ... More >>

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II touches down at Space Day tomorrow at the DMNS

​When it comes to Astronauts, Bruce McCandless II is a straight O.G. Selected by NASA in 1966, a mere eight years after the agency was founded, he got right down to business as the CAPCOM -- the astronaut NASA designates as a mission-control liaison to the astronauts in space -- of Apollo 11, ... More >>

Big Head Todd & the Monsters serenade astronauts aboard Shuttle Discovery

​This morning, while most of us in the working world were sound asleep, the dudes from Big Head Todd and the Monsters were at Mission Control in Houston serenading the astronauts aboard the Shuttle Discovery on their last day in space with Big Head's song "Blue Sky."

Lust-Cats of the Gutters submit "Moon Milk" for NASA's wake up contest

Sarah Cass​Apparently, for the last forty years or so, NASA has chosen Top-40 songs that the astronauts wake up to every morning on their missions. This year, prior to the April 1 launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, NASA, uh, launched the "Space Rock" song contest, which inspired The Lust-C ... More >>

Carmelo Anthony & other CO celebs who should be shot into space: Kenny Be's Fotoshop Friday

Full space flight crews shown below.​Boeing announced on Monday that it would be entering into a partnership with space tourism company Space Adventures to offer tourists rides on its CST-100 spacecraft. The rides will begin in 2015 and Boeing estimates that a passenger ticket on the spacecraf ... More >>

New Ancient Astronauts invoke the ancient days of our youth in this week's flier

​There's a lot to like about this week's flier. First off, who doesn't love LEGO? And can we get a "hell, yeah" for the way the New Ancient Astronauts have cleverly incorporated the LEGO Space Authority's orbiting rocket symbol into the Colorado state flag? Even the eye-bleed-inducing color sc ... More >>

Top Chef, D.C., round twelve: Out of this world!

Tiffany got jettisoned.​Tiffany got sent home from Top Chef this week. I was a little distressed when Arnold was told to pack his knives a few episodes back, because his problems were the fault of mean-spirited Lynne, and also I expected him to come up with some interestingly piquant dishes ov ... More >>

Earth Works

The tranquil beauty of Roger, Roll's ambient pop is as soothing as it arresting

Spaced Out

Space Is the Place

Twitter Tuesday: Space station, sex advice, slanket

​Back again with more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword, @westword_music and @casciato. @satsight: Growing up obsessed with space travel led directly to my current fascination with the ongoing march of technology. T ... More >>

George H.W. Bush's speech to schoolchildren: There's no room for drugs in space

George H.W. Bush.​As noted in our blog about a Douglas County school allowing parents to opt out of letting their kids watch President Barack Obama's speech to children on Tuesday, we pointed out that other Commanders-in-Chief have directly addressed younglings -- among them President George W ... More >>

Back to the Future

Remembering Apollo 11 at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

Denver-based DigitalGlobe can see your house -- and it's making a mint doing it

DigitalGlobe When you want to stalk someone but Facebook and parking outside their house for hours with binoculars just aren't doing it for you, how about buying high-resolution images of their neighborhood as taken by satellites? Sure, you could just get an image off of Google Maps, but if you wan ... More >>

CU scientists identify Mars fishin' hole

Image by Gaetano Di Achille/University of ColoradoWhat Mars' Shalbatana lake might have looked like 3.4 billion years ago. Even as an Atlas V rocket built by Centennial's United Launch Alliance blasted off yesterday on a mission that may lead to man's return to the moon, University of Colorado at B ... More >>

Centennial's United Launch Alliance taking off with smaller crew

Photo by Pat Corkery, United Launch AllianceA United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket set to launch in Florida this afternoon. United Launch Alliance, based in Centennial, is earning some nice ink today in relation to its Atlas V rocket, which is scheduled to boost the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter an ... More >>

A bad night in Boulder at Tahona

Space Case

Celebrate Yuri Gagarin's space milestone.

Big Deal for Big Head Todd

The Hillary’s suddenly alive with the sound of good music.

New Ancient Astronauts

Astronautilus
Self-released

WaterCourse Foods

What’s breakfast without some bacon? No reason to rise and shine.

Last Night: New Ancient Astronauts, The Inactivists, Little Fyodor and Babushka, Amphibious Jones @ Larimier Lounge

DIY Guy

Joseph Arthur wants to write his own legend.

Thank God for Astronauts

Bring Us Meat
Needlepoint Records

Joseph Arthur & the Lonely Astronauts

Sound Bites

Caught Mapping

How MapQuest helps the lost generation find itself.

Space Case

New Ancient Astronauts

Children of the Vortex (Self-released)

Drink of the Week

Lenin Martini

Flick Pick

The American Astronaut

Spaced Out

Combining everything from hardcore to free jazz, New Ancient Astronauts have all the right stuff.

Hit Pick

New Ancient Astronauts

Space Is the Place

Thank God for Astronauts launches some heavenly pop.

A Dam in the Stream

If Clear Channel can't afford Internet radio, who can?

A Spaced Odyssey

As the Denver Museum of Nature & Science looks to the future, employees worry that its original mission has been lost.

Consumed

What Are You Smoking?

The Truth Is Almost Out Here

A UFO museum may blast off in Denver.

Star Dreck

Mission to Mars becomes a long, strange trip.

Mars or Bust

The sky's no limit for these Colorado scientists. They're heading straight for the Red Planet.

SHADOW OF A DOUBT

THE DEFECTION OF PHILIP ANSCHUTZ IS JUST THE LATEST RED FLAG IN THE PEPSI CENTER DEAL.