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Meteorito Wine Was Sent Down from the Heavens
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You know what they say about wine: the older it is, the better it gets. But what about wine that was literally fermented with the usual stuff and with something that’s extremely old? Like roughly around 4.5 billion years old?… |
February 9th, 2012
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
19 Foot-Tall LEGO Saturn V Rocket, We Now Have Nerd Lift-Off
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This is one small step for nerd, one giant leap for nerd-kind. This 19 foot-tall LEGO creation is an homage to the brave astronauts of yesterday and today. It’s a replica of the Saturn V rocket, complete with gantry.… |
January 15th, 2012
Russian Space Official Hints Weapon Might Have Caused Phobos-Grunt Failure
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Russia has had some major failures over the last few months in its space program. So far the country has lost a load of supplies that were to go to the ISS, along with a GPS satellite and more. The most recent failure was the Phobos-Grunt probe which was supposed… |
January 12th, 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
G-Form iPad Case Still Out to Prove Itself, Protects Tablet from 100,000+ Foot Fall
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G-Form, this is an intervention. You don’t need to do this anymore. First the bowling ball, then the parachute, and now you launch yourself to the edge of space? We need to talk. You don’t need to keep proving your worth. We like you for what you are.… |
January 7th, 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
