Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, Chasers!! A friend of mine sent this to me today and I wanted to share it with all of you! It is “Happy Holidays” written out by early galaxy formations! So Awesome. Below the image is a link that provides info on each of the galaxies as part of the Sloan Digital …
Chasing Orion!
Hey Chasers, Just a quick update to let you know that we’re in Florida for the Orion Test Flight! The launch is set for 7AM EST today and we have press passes. We’ll be about 10KM from the launch site. This is even way closer than we were for the Atlantis lift off 3 years ago. Orion’s flight is exciting …
We’re On a Comet!!
Hey Chasers! In case you hadn’t already heard the news, we’ve landed on a comet! This morning the Rosetta mission landed on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Huzzah for space! You can check out the story on CBC here and be sure to follow the Rosetta mission twitter thread @ESA_Rosetta for more updates including images from the comet’s surface! Keep Chasing! Matthew
Rod Roddenberry: New Worlds, New Families, New Homes
As Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry and I talked about Star Trek in the living room of his home, both a sense of excitement and a question were on my mind. I was excited as it was difficult to believe I was sitting in the house of the caretaker of the Star Trek legacy. Like space itself, a fictional universe, such as …
In LA! Roddenberry, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, Hollywood Sci-Fi Museum
Hey Chasers! We’re back in Los Angeles. Last time that we were in the City of Angels we had an awesome adventure hanging out with the team from SpaceVidCast (now TMRO), Kevin Grazier, and Bill Nye the Science Guy. This time we have another exciting line-up of interviews and adventures. Tomorrow, Benjamin Higginbotham of the TMRO team has setup a …
Catch us at the Canadian National Exhibition
Hey Chasers! If you are in the Toronto area, you can check out the last weekend of the Canadian National Exhibition where Chasing Atlantis has its own display. The CNE is an annual fair leading up the Canadian Labour day weekend that hosts about 1.5 million people each year at Toronto’s Exhibition Place. It is Canada’s largest annual fair which …
45 Years Later, The Cosmos Makes a Giant Leap Toward Us…
45 Years ago today we landed on the Moon for the very first time. The Apollo 11 team of Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin took the first “Giant Leap for Mankind” (humankind) putting the first steps of humanity on a world beyond our own; a world characterized in the words of Buzz Aldrin by “Magnificent Desolation.” There has …
We’re At Polar Chill and the Constellation Awards This Weekend!
Hey Chasers! We’re heading to Polar Chill in Toronto this weekend and will be presenting at this year’s Constellation Awards We have had an awesome time with the TCON Promotional Society, a non-profit group in Toronto that organizes a host of conventions and acts as a rally point for the Toronto Sci-Fi/Fantasy Community. We first connected with them in July …
Help us get Bill Nye vs Neil deGrasse Tyson to Imgur’s front page!
Our Bill Nye vs Neill deGrasse Tyson vid has hit Imgur thanks to our friend and Chasing supporter, Siyavash Izadi. http://imgur.com/gallery/IGLAu/new. In the first 5 hours of it being posted earlier today, it hit over 4000 views and about 150 likes. If it hits 300, it will go to Imgur’s front page! Help us make the front page by giving …
Neil deGrasse Tyson vs Bill Nye: Celebrating Cosmos
Hey Chasers! Tonight is the last episode of Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey. Over the last 14 weeks, with host Neil deGrasse Tyson at the helm, we have been treated to a journey that has spanned the formation of the Universe itself, the heroes of the great scientific discoveries of our civilization, an understanding of the eons of Earth’s history …