Day 5 In the Race for Space It’s been 5 days competing in Metro’s Race for Space, a competition to win a trip on one of the first space tourism flights with aerospace company SXC. As of right now, I just hit 8500 votes. Amazing! I thought I’d be struggling to hit 1000, and here we are. I want to …
Day 2 in the Race for Space
Hey Chasers, Only a day and a half in and I’ve already grabbed 3400 votes for my entry in Metro Newspaper’s Race for Space Competition. Thanks to everybody who’s been voting for the support. Here’s the current strategy. The top voter is still a ways off from where we’re at. However, we have moved to 30th place out of approx …
Help Put Matthew Into SPACE…Literally
Hey Chasers, Metro newspaper is running a competition to put one of their readers on a sub-orbital flight that literally crests the edge of the atmosphere. As you might know from our project, I really dig space, and always wanted to get up there somehow. This is an opportunity to do just that. The competition is based on entry and …
Scale of the Universe 2: Help Get some Perspective Today
I found this post on George Stroumboulopoulos’ blog on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.) George is one of our favorite evening show hosts and focuses his interactions with the most amazing and interesting artists, scientists and social activists. On today’s post, George highlighted an interactive program that helps one navigate the scales of our Universe from the quantum tiny to the Astronomically Huge. There is …
Catching Atlantis
I’m back from Florida. Each step in this journey has been so remarkable. When we set out from Toronto at the outset of “Chasing Atlantis” I never imagined that we would have such a rich story to tell or have met so many amazing individuals. This most recent return journey to Florida is yet another example. I arrived in Florida …
Back at the Kennedy Space Center
It’s been a crazy past 24 hours. Basically we received word that Atlantis, which is currently being housed in the Vehicle Assembly Building, is being moved Friday morning back to the Orbiter Processing Facility. I have been in touch with with a NASA PR representative in an attempt to gain media level access to Atlantis which would allow us to …
Lost in Space
On February 19th, I made a post regarding cuts to NASA’s budget that puts future human space flight missions in jeopardy I had a few direct responses to the post, some for and some against, but I also came across this critique to the general sentiment of my post that made me second guess my original argument. “NASA, we have a …
Riptide Studios On Twitter
Hey Chasers, Our parent label, Riptide Studios, which was founded by Chasing Director Paul Muzzin, is now on Twitter. Let’s help get those initial follower numbers boosted! You can find Paul’s project here: @riptidestudios https://twitter.com/#!/riptidestudios Blessings, Matthew
Connecting
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Big Bang Theory hosts Astronaut Mike Massimino
In an conflation of comedy, science and science fiction, astronaut Mike Massimino will be joining the cast of Big Bang Theory tonight. Episode 515, The Friendship Contraction, will host Massimino, a past Atlantis and Columbia veteran. Massimino’s STS 125 Atlantis mission in May of 2009 was the final Hubble servicing mission featured in the IMAX documentary Hubble; one of the …