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Cosmonauts pee on a bus before their trip to space [Pic]

It’s gonna be a looooong ride… better go to the bathroom before you leave because we’re not pulling over!

22Jun2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued
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When We Left Earth: It’s like high def porn for NASA geeks [I Heart TV]

Starting yesterday, the Discovery Channel launched the first part of its 6 part series on the history of space exploration, digging deep into the vaults of NASA to remaster dozens of hours of footage in HD.

9Jun2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued
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The universe in powers of 10, a film from the 1970s [The More You Know]

I have no idea if they still show this in schools or not… but if you’re in your late 20s or early 30s, you probably saw this in school. It’s a short film from IBM showing the effect of powers of 10 in the universe, starting out with a couple taking a nap in a Chicago park and moving out one power of 10 meters every 10 seconds until and then back again to the subatomic level.

26May2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued
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The Mars Phoenix Lander has landed– and it’s blogging [News]

Last night at 7:53pm EST, NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander touched down on the polar surface of Mars, where it will begin digging for water. All this in the name of better understanding of extraterrestrial life and in the hopes that we may one day have one of our own standing on the surface of [...]

26May2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued
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Yay Space Food Sticks [Dept. of Advertising Nonsense]

There was a magical point in time when all you had to do to sell anything– anything– was to somehow tie it to the Space Race and space exploration. Including selling cat food in aluminum pouches to kids. Behold, Space Food Sticks: The energy food developed by Pillsbury under a government contract in [...]

30Jan2008 | cbz | 3 comments | Continued
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Proof of a Fractal Universe [The More You Know]

Last year, an international group of astrophysicists used a computer simulation to judge the shape of the universe– and what they found is that it looks an awful lot like a brain cell.

12Aug2007 | cbz | 0 comments | Continued