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NASA Video Shows the Dark Side of the Moon
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I’ve always found it interesting that we can all look in the night sky and see the same moon every day no matter where we live on planet. I’ve also always found it a bit intriguing that we only see one side of the moon and I have often wondered… |
February 5th, 2012
ISS Orbit Had to Be Changed over the Weekend to Avoid Chinese Space Debris
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Space junk is quickly becoming a big hazard in orbit around the Earth. There are untold numbers defunct satellites and other chunks of debris and trash floating around up there that pose a hazard to humans on the ISS and other satellites that are still being used. The problem is… |
January 31st, 2012
Do Russian Probe Pics from ’82 Prove Life on Venus?
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This is a very interesting debate going on right now in the scientific community. A Russian scientist named Leonid Ksanfomaliti has checked out some images shot by a Russian probe sent to Venus in 1982 called Venera 13. The 79-year-old Russian scientist from the Space Research Institute in Moscow thinks… |
January 24th, 2012
NASA Says Triangular “UFO” Was Just Light Reflected from Venus
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There has been a lot of hub-bub going on in the UFO nut realm in recent weeks. Apparently, in a NASA video from the STEREO-B spacecraft, something that looked like a triangular UFO appeared and looked as if it was moving towards the Earth. The cover-up rumors started when the… |
January 21st, 2012
SpaceX Dragon Gets Ready for Run to ISS in February
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Next month is an important month for the NASA space program. It will mark the first visit of a commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station in history. With the Shuttle fleet retired, most of the supplies and visits to the ISS have been performed using Russian spacecraft. In February,… |
January 8th, 2012
NASA Says Checklist Jim Lovell Sold Was Not His to Sell
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Back in December, we talked about the checklist that was put up for auction by Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell. The checklist was the item that Lovell used to make calculations needed to get his spacecraft home after an explosion ended the trip to the moon. NASA has now contacted… |
January 7th, 2012
Lovejoy Comet Lives Through Brush with Sun’s Corona
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Comets are cool, both literally and figuratively. They are generally made of frozen gases and other stuff. I can remember years and years ago when a particularly bright one was in the sky, and looking at it each morning on the way to work. An amateur astronomer from Australia named… |
December 17th, 2011
NASA Creates Space Harpoon for Comets: Thar She Blows!
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Those cats over at NASA come up with some wild ideas from time to time and one of their latest ideas may well be the strangest I have seen in a while. NASA has devised a plan to harpoon a comet as it streaks by. This isn’t to stop it… |
December 15th, 2011
Far Out Space Nut Drops $380,000 on Apollo 13 Checklist
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If you are the sort of geek that likes space travel, you have to be enamored by the manned missions to the moon in the 60′s and 70′s. Of all the missions slated to put astronauts on the moon, the one that famously didn’t make it was Apollo 13. Apollo… |
December 1st, 2011
NASA Makes Little Old Lady Pee Her Pants Over Sliver of Moon Rock. Really?
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Apparently, a 73-year-old woman named Joann Davis has had a tiny sliver of rock from the moon smaller than a grain of rice since 1987 when her husband died. Davis claims the tiny piece of moon rock was given to her husband by Neil Armstrong in the 70′s when her… |
October 27th, 2011
