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Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues In Rock
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech / Cornell / Arizona State Univ. NASA’s senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on “Cape York… more →
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Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues In Rock
wrote 1 day ago: Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech / Cornell / Arizona State Univ. NASA’s senior Mars rover, Oppor … more →
My next challenge...
wrote 2 days ago: …a.k.a. The Birth of “Das Crazy Space Programme” Feeling confident in my budding k … more →
Udvar-Házy Air & Space Museum
wrote 2 days ago: Did you know there are actually two Smithsonian Air and Space museum locations? There is one on the … more →
Canadian astronaut wrestles with gravity after spaceflight
wrote 4 days ago: By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida | Fri May 17, 2013 2:33pm EDT CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuter … more →
On space exploration, Apollo 13 and the need for off-world urgency
wrote 5 days ago: Early in Apollo 13, when a reporter asks Jim Lovell (i.e. Tom Hanks) why the Apollo program should c … more →
Cassini Shapes First Global Topographic Map Of Titan
wrote 6 days ago: Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech / ASI / JHUAPL / Cornell/Weizmann Scientists have created the first g … more →
DIY Space Program
wrote 1 week ago: When deciding to become a novelist while keeping the day job – sadly necessary if you also cho … more →
Chris Hadfield’s 5-month Space Mission in 90 Seconds
wrote 1 week ago: Many people have probably just become aware of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield in the last week be … more →
NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target On Mars
wrote 1 week ago: The team operating NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling … more →
Space Oddity In Space
wrote 1 week ago: Many folk will already have seen this by now: I’m not sure if it is the most expensive music v … more →
Revised Space Oddity
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wrote 1 week ago: If you haven’t followed Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield–the first Canadian commander o … more →
Ground control to Commander Hadfield
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wrote 1 week ago: Chris Hadfield, everyone’s favourite astronaut, has officially handed over control of the ISS … more →
Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin
wrote 2 weeks ago: Omon Ra is a short, melancholic story of disillusionment set in Soviet Russia. The protagonist and t … more →
Preview tour: Spaceport USA
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wrote 2 weeks ago: The last non-marathon driving day of my spring trip to New Mexico culminated in a guided tour of Spa … more →
Telling Time On Saturn
wrote 2 weeks ago: Image courtesy of NASA A University of Iowa undergraduate student has discovered that a process occu … more →
Basics of Spaceflight
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Does this kind of thing get you excited? Launch Phase Upon completion of this chapter you will be ab … more →
More April science breakthroughs!
wrote 3 weeks ago: Rise of the machines. Well. Or just the self-assembling nanoparticles. A relief to anyone perhaps ov … more →
NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views Of Large Hurricane On Saturn
wrote 3 weeks ago: Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first … more →
Under Power
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wrote 3 weeks ago: SpaceShip Two finally had its first powered flight today, passing Mach 1 with a 16-second burn of it … more →
