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Category Archives: Space
Wow
This is making the rounds, but it’s cool.
Apollo Astronauts May Have Brought a Piece of Ancient Earth Back From the Moon
What’s Better than the Latest Video Game or Movie Trailer?
Real life.
What have you done today?
The ISS has Been in Orbit 20 Years!
Happy Birthday to Earth’s Space Station!
Kepler is Dead
Not Johannes, he’s been dead awhile. The Kepler Space Telescope named in his honor. It did it’s job perfectly, but it will be missed.
“First Man” is Looking Good
Early reports are favorable.
Ceres the Ice Volcano World
Well it’s About Time
A great American hero gets his due…
I will be going.
Atmospheric Aerosols
Essentially particles of solid and liquid matter suspended in air. Air pollution if you like.
NASA’s terrifying visualization of atmospheric aerosols
Scary stuff.
R.I.P. Alan Bean
The fourth man to walk on the moon, and a pretty good artist as well.
Astronauts Falling on the Moon
Someone with a good editor program had fun with all the open source NASA footage, because why not?
Vertical Rocket Launches
Stands to reason…
SpaceX launch last year punched huge, temporary hole in the ionosphere
R.I.P. Stephen Hawking
His contributions to Physics and his ability to popularize science have secured his place in history, his triumph over motor neuron disease have made him a legend. It is rare that a real human is far more compelling a character than anything fiction could dream up.
One More Time
A Remix of the Falcon Heavy launch from last month. Now with more Bowie.
Nice job Space X!
Not Good
Let’s hope it hits in an unpopulated area.
China’s Tiangong-1 space station will crash to Earth within weeks
Someone Spotted the Tesla Roadster in Space
The Little Rover that Could
It was supposed to last 90 Mars days. Yesterday, Opportunity celebrated its 5,000 Martian sunrise.
NASA Has Officially Listed Musk’s Tesla Roadster As a Celestial Object
Right Now There is a Car Orbiting the Earth
Space X Scores and almost perfect test flight. At this time it looks as though they lost the core of the main stage, but both boosters landed beautifully.
This is a live feed from a camera onboard the main stage, now on it’s way to Mars, with Elon Musk’s personal Tesla roadster along for the ride. Dang.
R.I.P. John Young
Sorry, with the flurry of activity at the end of the semester I did not post this when it happened. As I’ve said before, only 12 men walked on the moon. We all should take note when one of them passes.
NASA Mourns the Passing of Astronaut John Young
Only five remain with us.
Here’s Why Space Starts At 62 Miles Up
I never knew this…
The Title of This Article
says it all…
MYSTERIOUS ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ROCK MADE OF TINY DIAMONDS FORMED BEFORE THE SOLAR SYSTEM EXISTED
Thanks Tom!
R.I.P. Bruce McCandless
We lost another American hero
Our “Message in a Bottle” is Still Working
Wow. It still works, what an amazing machine.
After 37 years, Voyager 1 has fired up its trajectory thrusters
Where are All the Aliens?
It’s a good question. Some of the possible answers are a bit scary though.