Remembering Neil Armstrong and Listening to the Apollo Astronauts
After watching a documentary about Neil Armstrong last weekend, it reminded me that I had a copy of In The Shadow if the Moon in my…
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NASA Researchers Identify Water Rich Martian Meteorite
NASA-funded researchers analyzing a small meteorite that may be the first discovered from the Martian surface or crust have found it contains 10 times more water…
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ESA Astrophoto of the Year Winner
From over 120 stunning entries to our first Space Science Image of the Week competition, the ESA panel of judges has chosen this beautiful composition of…
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NASA Releases 2 Free eBooks About Space Telescopes
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been providing astounding images of the universe since April 1990 and has led to remarkable discoveries. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 475: Monitoring of the Dwarf Nova U Geminorum in Support of HST Observations
AAVSO Alert Notice 475 Monitoring of the dwarf nova U Geminorum in support of HST observations December 22, 2012 As announced by Dr. Matthew Templeton (AAVSO)…
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SETI@Home Needs Your Donations
Here’s a quick email I received from the SETI@Home. Makes you think… In 2012, Americans spent more than $6 billion on political campaigns. (That’s 15,000 times…
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GRAIL Impacts on Moon, Site Named for Astronaut Sally Ride
NASA has named the site where twin agency spacecraft impacted the moon Monday in honor of the late astronaut Sally K. Ride, who was America’s first…
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Why the World Won’t End on December 21st!
Ok, this post was originally scheduled to go live on December 22 as all sane people know the world isn’t going to end sometime on December…
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ESA to Inaugurate New Satellite Tracking Station
A new satellite tracking station at Malargüe, Argentina, will be formally inaugurated on Tuesday, completing the trio of deep-space stations and confirming ESA as one of…
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Progressing Towards the First Launch of NASA’s New Orion Spacecraft
Recent engineering advances by NASA and its industry partners across the country show important progress toward Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), the next step to launching humans…
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