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China Probes Far Side Of The Moon, A Sputnik Moment?

... New Side Of The Moon. This animated Gif from NASA shows the Moon passing between the camera on the NOAA’s DSCOVR ... a human in four years. Then 12 years after Sputnik, NASA’s Apollo 11 landed humans on the Moon meanwhile the USSR began to ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jan 3 2019 - 11:37am - 0 attachments

50 Years Ago Today, Apollo 8 Soared Into Space - And Cicero Cheered

Half a century of Christmases ago, the NASA space mission Apollo 8 became the first manned craft to leave low Earth ... Lovell Jr., William Anders, Frank Borman (L-R). NASA But the moon is 250,000 miles distant. And so Apollo 8, in one ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 21 2018 - 7:00am - 0 attachments

Predictions! For 2019 In Science and Technology.

... From American Soil   Space X working with NASA will launch a crewed dragon space craft  but not when they say they ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 18 2018 - 12:28pm - 0 attachments

An Astronaut Gardener On The Moon - Summits Of Sunlight And Vast Lunar Caves In Low Gravity

... a greenhouse inside a base.  Detail from image from NASA, 1989 . This was for the  Lunar Oasis proposal  for a ten ... the Moon's axis is so vertical. Diagram from NASA . With the Moon's orbit tilted by 5.14°, Earth tilted by 23.4°, yet the ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 17 2018 - 10:59pm - 0 attachments

Can JP Aerospace's Future Giant Airships Slowly Accelerate To Orbit? Looking At The Numbers

... have never redone the calculations since the USAF days. If NASA with all their staff and budget can mix up imperial and metric with the ... size of his orbital airship. Visitors inside NASA's Space Power Facility . This can achieve vacuums of a millionth of a ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 17 2018 - 10:57pm - 0 attachments

Pink Penguin Poop Can Be Seen From Space

... where a population of Adélie penguins live. Credits: NASA “Penguin guano ranges from white to pink to dark red. White guano ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 12 2018 - 4:01pm - 0 attachments

Why The Solar Eclipse This August Is A Wonder Of Nature And Not Something To Be Scared Of

... for eclipses from 2021 to 2024 here . This is NASA’s eclipse page, with lots of maps like that in the map section. ... the shadow moving across the US during the eclipse? ) NASA will send some jets to observe the eclipse, because it’s a chance for ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 11 2018 - 9:45pm - 0 attachments

Elf On A Shelf Goes To Space

... Anne McClain and beamed back to terra firma . NASA sure has changed. Gus Grissom got criticized for even eating a corned ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 11 2018 - 2:40pm - 0 attachments

We Can Now Hear Sound On Mars

NASA's InSight experiment landed on Mars November 26th after traveling 300 ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 11 2018 - 2:17pm - 0 attachments

No Need To Be Scared Of Asteroids - Far Less Scary Than Lightning

... plenty of time to do something about it ( Debunked: NASA can’t deflect asteroid Bennu ). Cities are often evacuated for ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 11 2018 - 2:20am - 0 attachments