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Hey gang! Who can tell me what amazing thing didn’t happen 50 years ago today?
Anyone?
Yes, you there. The man in the back with the yellow shirt that reads “Get Bent”, any ideas?
No?
OK, I’ll tell you. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the day that Eurasia (formerly the Soviet Union) didn’t launch the […]
Henry Cate has the latest Carnival of Space on his WhyHomeschool blog.
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Image Credit: Apollo Image Archive
The Apollo Image Archive is scanning the film from the Apollo missions into high resolution digital files.
The resolution will be roughly 20 feet, which means that objects larger than this will be resolved when you look at the images. Anything smaller than this will just be a blur.
They are […]
In a hearing held yesterday on the status of the space shuttle and the International Space Station, former manager of NASA’s space station program Tommy Holloway testified that getting stuff up to the space station might not be possible when the shuttle is retired.
Apparently, the vehicles that will replace the space shuttle aren’t even close […]
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Using a pair of giant scissors made possible by technology developed during the Apollo program, the director of the Johnson Space Flight Center announced the opening of a really cool facility to house their Saturn V rocket, one of only two complete ones left after the Apollo program ended.
There is a third, […]
I’m a blogger that likes to do more than just whine and complain while others do all the work, I like to be a part of the solution.
In this post, I’ve written that the Kepler team has had some financial difficulty, so much so that NASA had all but cancelled the project.
In a nutshell:
In 2006, […]
I know I rail against NASA on this blog probably a little more than is fair, but this time, I have to hand it to ‘em.
In 2006, the Kepler team asked for, and received, a 21% budget increase. They also said they needed more time, an additional five months, in order to get the […]
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(I sure as hell didn’t take it)
The New Scientist Space Blog is reporting that there is not much interest in the International Space Station from government or private agencies.
Duh. Could that be because no one knows what the hell it’s good for? Or what it’s purpose is? Or […]
NASA is looking for volunteers to write code. In an attempt to start an open source collaboration with software developers, NASA has started CosmosCode:
CosmosCode will build a core offering of free and open source space software through an independent project hosting website, and the development and management of a free software community specific to […]
We need to let go of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). It’s dying, is past it’s prime and we may as well start preparing ourselves for it’s eventual death. The death of the HST is far from a bad thing though, we have much better things on the horizon, more exciting discoveries await!
But […]
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