From the category archives:
They’re heroic, adventurous, smart, and brave, but are astronauts scary? That’s up to you this Halloween. Our great selection of techie astronaut costumes and authentic flight suits look awesome straight up. But you can always add your own accessories to become a scary spacefarer.
Three new LEGO kits take Space Police Enforcement to a whole new level. Amazingly advanced Space Police cruisers chase scary and lawless aliens across the galaxy to recover stolen laser cannons. The vehicles have tons of extra features — forensic labs, mini 4-wheelers, alien strikecraft, blast armor and more!
If you are one of the brilliant/lucky so-and-so’s who bought a COLBERT patch from The Space Store earlier this year, by all means put it someplace safe! The patch is out of production and has become an instant collector’s item.
The COLBERT patch was a big seller here at The Space Store, so we were very unhappy when a legal glitch between manufacturer AB Emblem and Comedy Central called a halt to its production.
Read Robert Pearlman’s article: Collectible COLBERT Space Patch Sells Out
A great new gift for astronauts and golfers has arrived at The Space Store this week: the Alan Shepard Apollo 14 bobblehead. He’s standing proud on the lunar surface. There’s a golf ball at his feet and he’s teeing up for his legendary golf swing on the moon.
The Alan Shepard bobblehead is a thoughtful gift for your favorite golfer, astronaut, or space history buff. Just $24.95 right now at The Space Store.
We’re proud to offer two new ballpoint pens that any pen collector would be proud to own or happy to receive. The first is a limited edition gold-plated pen to honor NASA’s 50th anniversary. Retired Apollo Flight Director Gene Kranz calls it a “fitting reminder of the proud day we planted an American flag on the moon … In the years to come, it will be a valued collector’s item.”
The second new collectible pen at The Space Store is a limited-edition Fisher Space Pen in brilliant chrome, the Apollo 40th Anniversary Moon Landing Pen. It commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with an engraving of an astronaut on the moon with an American flag.
I found this video on YouTube. Experiment Boy, a very earnest young scientist, demonstrates the power of the Cosmic Rocket
, a six-inch rocket powered by vinegar and baking soda. With the aid of his little sister and the video operation of, hmm … his mom, probably, he sets it up and launches it into a very high and satisfying arc.
When I was 3 or 4 years old, my dad took me outside one muggy night and showed me a fast-moving light arcing across the Houston sky.
Important events — even Hallmark holidays like Father’s Day — are often about family connections and the things that have always brought us together. For my Dad and me, the night sky and the machines that travel in it are a doorway to those early skywatching nights, when he and I were just getting to know one another.
