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how can we keep space exploration going?
weird things —
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Over the last year, I’ve given more than my fair share of criticism when it comes to NASA and its management over its lack of innovation , Constellation’s technological steps backwards and the looming problems with the ISS noted by a recent GAO report. Human spaceflight and space exploration in the United ...16 hours ago -
a letdown of orbital proportions?
weird things —
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Over a decade of construction, which will still take another two years to complete, spending some $50 billion and devoting much of the space program to building and supporting the ISS, there’s a very real possibility that NASA may end up with a dud on its hands, says the GAO . Far from being a crucial node for ...1 day ago -
While I was wrapping: Christmas science
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub —
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Ohh, here’s fun: Photographing fractals using Christmas ornaments, at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories : "Construct complex fractals out of light using a few shiny Christmas tree ornaments. Who says the holidays arent exciting?" All you need is a camera and some imagination — oh, and some Christmas ...3 days ago -
Best of Best for 2009 (thus far)
Stupidica —
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Guy goes into a bar, theres a robot bartender. The robot says, "What will you have?" The guy says, "Martini." The robot brings back the best martini ever and says to the man, "Whats your IQ?" The guy says, "168". The robot then proceeds to talk about physics, space exploration and medical technology. The guy leaves, ...4 days ago -
Best of Best for 2009 (thus far)
Stupidica —
Authority: 177
Guy goes into a bar, theres a robot bartender. The robot says, "What will you have?" The guy says, "Martini." The robot brings back the best martini ever and says to the man, "Whats your IQ?" The guy says, "168". The robot then proceeds to talk about physics, space exploration and medical technology. The guy leaves, ...4 days ago -
Take it from Snee: Oh, there’s a Santa Claus alright
SeriouslyGuys —
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“DEAR DR. SNEE: I am 8 years old. “Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. “Papa says, ‘If you see it on SERIOUSLYGUYS it’s so.’ “Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? “VIRGINIA O’HANLON. “115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET” VIRGINIA, your little friends are buttf#%king ...4 days ago -
Dec. 24, 1968: Christmas Eve Greetings From Lunar Orbit
This Day In Tech —
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1968: The crew of Apollo 8 delivers a live, televised Christmas Eve broadcast after becoming the first humans to orbit another space body. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders made their now-celebrated broadcast after entering lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, which might help explain the heavy religious content ...5 days ago -
Interstellar Probe - New Study Underway
Space Coalition Blog —
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Given the string of exo-planet detections, with more to come, what are the chances of sending a robotic craft to another star system? Decades ago, in the 1970s, high-browed members of the British Interplanetary Society undertook a five year study called Project Daedalus - an unpiloted interstellar probe to make a ...5 days ago -
Best Hubble Space Telescope Images of 2009
Discovery News - Technology —
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NASAs Hubble Space Telescope has snapped images from the far corners of the known universe. Take a look at our favorite Hubble images of 2009.5 days ago -
White Christmas: The Coldest Places in the Solar System
OK4me2 —
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White ice peaks through the red Martian surface dirt layer after the Phoenix Mars lander used its robotic arm to dig a trench in the ground. The confirmation of subsurface water ice at the northern reaches of the red planet help scientists better understand the water cycle there. This image was taken on June 13, 2008. ...5 days ago -
Invisible Dark-Matter Galaxy has Ten Billion Xs the Mass of the Sun
OK4me2 —
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New evidence has been discovered by an international team led by astronomers from the National Science Foundation’s Arecibo Observatory and from Cardiff University in the United Kingdom that VIRGOHI 21, a mysterious cloud of hydrogen in the Virgo Cluster 50 million light-years from the Earth, is a Dark Galaxy, ...5 days ago -
New crew reaches International Space Station
OK4me2 —
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – A fresh three-member crew arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday, bolstering the two-man skeleton crew that has been keeping the outpost operational since December 1. A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and ...5 days ago -
2010 preview: SETI’s 50th birthday
OK4me2 —
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West Virginia. It is 6 am on an April morning in 1960 and Frank Drake is freezing cold. He peers up towards the focal point of the radio telescope. He mounts a flimsy ladder to the top and climbs into a space about the size of a garbage can. For the next 45 minutes, he tunes the receiver inside, which feels like ...5 days ago -
Brown Dwarf Pair Mystifies Astronomers
OK4me2 —
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ScienceDaily (Dec. 23, 2009) — Two brown dwarf-sized objects orbiting a giant old star show that planets may assemble around stars more quickly and efficiently than anyone thought possible, according to an international team of astronomers. Artists rendition of a brown dwarf and its moon orbiting a triple star ...5 days ago -
Mars Rover Breakdown Leads to New Data
Apathetic Lemming of the North —
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" Mars Rover Makes Discovery While Spinning Its Wheels " Space.com (December 22, 2009) " Even though NASAs Mars rover Spirit has been trapped in the sand for months, the robot has still managed to report new facts about the red planet — all by just spinning its wheels. " These findings shed light on the ...5 days ago -
Mars Moil: One Mission Revived as Others Fight for Life or Await Possible Resurrection
Scientific American —
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For the past few months, NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been little more than deadweight--a body as massive as a small car, zooming idly in orbit high above the surface of the Red Planet. After the orbiters computer suffered a series of unplanned reboots, mission engineers decided in August to hold the ...6 days ago -
Engage the x drive: Ten ways to traverse deep space [del.icio.us]
Blah, Blah! Technology —
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So if we want to explore the depths of deep space and journey to Alpha Centauri and beyond, were going to need some new technologies. Here, we look at 10 of the most intriguing.6 days ago -
Mars 2016 Methane Orbiter: Searching for Signs of Life
Universe Today —
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Elements of the ESA-NASA ExoMars program 2016-2018. Credit: ESA The new joint Mars exploration program of NASA and ESA is quickly pushing forward to implement an agreed upon framework to construct an ambitious new generation of red planet orbiters and landers starting with the 2016 and 2018 launch windows. The ...6 days ago -
10 Future Space Transportation Technologies
Neatorama —
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At New Scientist , Michael Marshall describes ten hypothetical technologies that could propel spacecraft at greater distances and higher speeds than ever before. These aren’t warp drives and hyperspace wormholes, but real science. One example is the ion thruster, which may be just a few years away from actuality: ...6 days ago -
Titan’s lakes could be explored by boat
OK4me2 —
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(PhysOrg.com) — If a suggestion to be made to NASA comes to fruition, vast lakes thought to be filled with liquid hydrocarbons near the north pole of Saturns moon Titan, may one day be explored by boat. This image of Titan was taken by the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer on board the European Space Agencys ...6 days ago
