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HSM4 wrapping up

aquillam wrote 1 month ago: The astronauts are cleaning up the payload bay after the last servicing mission to Hubble. So far, e … more →

Tags: Astronomy, Science, astronomy, HST, HST observatory, Telescope, space telescope

More on the Spitzer warm mission

aquillam wrote 1 month ago: NASA has put up a nice site collecting the highlights of the change-over from Spitzer’s primar … more →

Tags: Astronomy, Science, astronomy, Telescope, space telescope

space based astronomy

aquillam wrote 1 month ago: Just is case you haven’t been paying attention to everything going on in the world of space ba … more →

Tags: Astronomy, Science, astronomy, HST, HST observatory, SL astronomy, space telescope

Kepler First Light!1 comment

cosmicthespian wrote 2 months ago: Last week, the Kepler space telescope released its dust cover.  Today, a NASA press release announce … more →

Tags: News

Incoming: Sam Rockwell in "Moon"1 comment

Nate wrote 2 months ago: This highly anticipated movie trailer was brought to my attention by the AL this week, and after wat … more →

Tags: Coming Attractions, MOVIES, Movies, SciFi, Moon Movie, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Evil Computers

Changing phases of CoRoT-1b

cosmicthespian wrote 2 months ago: 400 years ago, Galileo became the first person to observe the phases of Venus.  These observations w … more →

Tags: Discoveries, Planet Gallery

Kepler blows its top

cosmicthespian wrote 2 months ago: Kepler is a space mission to search for extrasolar planets by looking for periodic transits – … more →

Maclean’s Interview: Julie Payette

macleans.ca wrote 5 months ago: Q: You were the first Canadian to go into the international space station, in 1999, and you’re sched … more →

Tags: The Interview, Julie Payette, NASA

Apollo 8

iapetus wrote 6 months ago: was launched 40 years ago today from Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.A. with Frank Borman, James Lovell … more →

Tags: celebrations, events, & festivals, USA, Florida, Moons, Apollo 8, Spacecraft, Cape Canaveral, Frank Borman, James Lovell Jr.

Doug Ellison's Open University Mars talk

Will Gater wrote 6 months ago: I’ve just started ‘following’ unmanned spaceflight expert Doug Ellison on Twitter … more →

Tags: Astronomy Outreach, media, Mars, Doug Ellison, outreach, The Open Univeristy

Tool infinity and beyond

Will Gater wrote 7 months ago: I’m getting a few emails asking about the toolkit that an astronaut dropped from the Internati … more →

Tags: Space Shuttle, NASA, ISS, Toolkit

Look back - you never know what you might see1 comment

Will Gater wrote 8 months ago: Often the most captivating space pictures come, not from looking out into the depths of the Universe … more →

Tags: the moon

India’s First Moon Mission

modelworks wrote 9 months ago: M. Annadurai, project head of India’s first unmanned mission said India will launch a locally built … more →

Tags: News, desktop models, M. Annadurai, India’s First Moon Mission, unmanned mission to the moon, India's moon mission, space shuttles, Space Shuttle, space satellite

HST data recorder failure

aquillam wrote 9 months ago: I just had a telecon sponsored by the Education Office at GSFC about HST, so I want to get this info … more →

Tags: Astronomy, Science, HST, Instrumentation

What's it worth?

Will Gater wrote 9 months ago: Time and again astronomers, space scientists and even people like me, who write about astronomy … more →

Tags: esa

From Mariner to Mars Express

Will Gater wrote 11 months ago: On the 14th July 1965 NASA’s Mariner 4 flew past Mars and kicked off humankind’s explora … more →

Tags: esa, Mars, NASA

Neil deGrasse Tyson

jameswharris wrote 11 months ago: I became a big fan of Neil deGrasse Tyson when he came to Memphis to give a talk last April, where h … more →

Tags: astronomy, Space Travel, NASA, neil degrasse tyson, robots versus manned

Now wash your wheels!

Will Gater wrote 1 year ago: Clandestine agents and heroic citizens of blockbuster sci-fi movies are often portrayed as defendin … more →

Tags: science writing

Phoenix: 21 sols in

Will Gater wrote 1 year ago: Phoenix has now been on Mars for 21 sols (I guess that’s still 3 Mars weeks right?!) and it … more →

Tags: Mars


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