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 Blu-Ray collection (these days I only buy Blu-Rays because of their higher image quality than DVDs). The Armstrong documentary got me to thinking back to my childhood when the Apollo missions were always on … Read the rest of this article
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 than other Martian meteorites from unknown origins.
This new class of meteorite was found in 2011 in the Sahara Desert. Designated Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, and nicknamed “Black Beauty,” it weighs approximately 11 ounces … Read the rest of this article
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 the conjunction of Jupiter and its four large satellites with our own Moon as the winning image of 2012. The image was composed by Antonio Peña from Madrid, Spain, as Jupiter and the Moon… Read the rest of this article
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 is the next-generation telescope that will peer even deeper into space and unveil even more mysteries. Both of these extraordinary telescopes are now the topics of two free e-books available from the Apple iBookstore.… Read the rest of this article
As announced by Dr. Matthew Templeton (AAVSO) in AAVSO Special Notice #316 (www.aavso.org/aavso-special-notice-316), Dr. Michael Shara (American Museum of Natural History, Columbia University) has requested dense coverage of the dwarf nova U Gem in support of HST Cosmic Origins … Read the rest of this article
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 the annual SETI@home budget). And during the presidential campaign, none of the candidates mentioned SETI@home even once.
That’s OK. We understand that SETI isn’t a federal priority, and that no flood of federal dollars … Read the rest of this article
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 woman in space and a member of the probes’ mission team. Last Friday (Dec. 14), Ebb and Flow, the two spacecraft comprising NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, were commanded to … Read the rest of this article
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 21st. Even NASA concurs and they released the video below early to illustrate why the world won’t end. Maybe this post and video will stop some people buy buying the crap and tat that’s … Read the rest of this article
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 the world’s most technologically advanced space organisations.
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One of the world’s most sophisticated satellite tracking stations is nearing readiness in Malargüe, Argentina, 1200 km west of Buenos Aires. The massive, 35 m-diameter antenna will …
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 to deep space. The uncrewed EFT-1 mission, launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2014, will test the re-entry performance of the agency’s Orion capsule, the most advanced spacecraft ever designed, which … Read the rest of this article
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