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NASA gets geekily creative with pop-culture-inspired expedition posters.
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posted 16 April, 2013
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NASA’s new TESS satellite is a mean little exoplanet discovering machine
The Kepler Space Telescope has been a rock star when it comes to discovering exoplanets, but NASA has an even better exoplanet discovering machine in the works named TESS, or Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, built entirely around the mission of trying to discover even more planets across the universe.
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posted 10 April, 2013
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Website of the day: Distractions in Space
Distractions in Space has a good collection of transcripts of conversations between astronauts and ground control from various Apollo missions, including this one about a turd floating through the cabin during Apollo 10.
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posted 04 April, 2013
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Voyager has more or less left the solar system
While NASA won’t say yet that Voyager I has officially left the solar system, because it’s kind of a wide, wobbly border, but as far as we know right now, the tiny little space probe that could has pretty much left the solar system, making it the first manmade object to do so.
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posted 20 March, 2013
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Jeff Bezos recovers an Apollo rocket from the bottom of the Atlantic
Amazon founder and space travel startup entrepreneur Jeff Bezos recently completed a fishing expedition in the Atlantic, where he managed to pull up an old, rusty rocket that had been sitting on the seafloor since 1969, when they were jettisoned from the rocket that took Neil Armstrong and co to the moon.
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posted 20 March, 2013
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SpaceX’s Grasshopper reusable rocket makes its second test hop, doubling its previous height
SpaceX’s Grasshopper doubled its highest leap to date to rise 24 stories or 80.1 meters (262.8 feet), hovering for approximately 34 seconds and landing safely using closed loop thrust vector and throttle control.
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posted 13 March, 2013
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Meet the couple who could have the fortitude for a trip to Mars and back
Last month, billionaire Dennis Tito said that he wants to send a married couple on a trip around Mars and back, a journey of 500 days in a tiny tin can floating through space. For the mission, it can’t just be any couple— preferably, you’d want two people who have experience living in extreme isolation for long periods of time without killing each other. Rolf and Deborah Shapiro have done just that, having spent 15 months alone in Antarctica, just for the fuck of it.
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posted 12 March, 2013
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Billionaire wants to send a married couple around Mars starting in 2018. Yeah, that’ll work.
Billionaire space tourist guy Dennis Tito wants to help be one of the first people to launch people to Mars in 2018. Instead of a single person or a crew of several, Tito’s idea is to send a married couple in orbit around Mars, because being married is a guarantee that someone won’t get murdered when you’re stuck in a tin can for 500 days in space.
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posted 28 February, 2013
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield tweets from space with the crew of the Enterprise
So this entire Twitter conversation happened recently, between Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and several members of Starfleet. This is absolutely the best thing to happen on Twitter ever.
A human trip to Mars could cause Alzheimer’s in astronauts
We’ve sent humans to the Moon several times, but that’s a pretty short journey. A human trip to our other nearest rocky neighbor Mars is quite a bit longer and presents a lot more problems with how people will handle the trip, physically, mentally and emotionally. One potential problem could be that the trip might induce Alzheimer’s in the astronauts, which is a big problem.
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posted 20 January, 2013
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Stop whatever you’re doing and watch this 25 tour of the International Space Station
Otherwise you won’t know how many kinds of toilet paper they have, or know why the exercise bike could potentially break their solar panels, or where the secret stash of space candy is. SPACE CANDY!
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posted 17 January, 2013
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Photos taken by the Huygens probe as it was landing on the moon Titan
On January 14, 2005, the Huygens space probe landed on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan (shown left). Organized as a joint mission by the Italian Space Agency, ESA and NASA, the Huygens’ touchdown marked the first spacecraft landing in the outer solar system and still remains the most distant landing of any craft launched from Earth to this day.
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posted 15 January, 2013
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NASA’s Curiosity rover uses its brush to wipe a section of the Martian surface clean of dust
In order to try and get a certain amount of Martian soil samples as dust free as possible, Curiosity is equipped with a wire brush that scrubs red dust from rocks to get a better look at what’s underneath. A couple days ago, Curiosity tried its brush for the first time on a section of flat rock, and this is what that rock looks like under the red Martian soil.
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posted 08 January, 2013
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HD stabilized video of the lunar rover from Apollo 16 in 1972
Using a HD transfer of the original Apollo 16 moon rover footage from 16mm film, it was cleaned up and stabilized. It’s almost like you’re right there, except with less real moon dust.
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posted 07 January, 2013
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Radiation from space travel may cause brain damage. So there’s that.
In open space, outside the barriers of atmospheres, there’s a shit ton of radiation beaming about all over the place. Spaceships shield themselves from the radiation to keep astronauts safe, but there’s a bigger danger than gamma rays— radioactive iron ions that are too heavy to be blocked by normal radiation shields, that could lead to brain damage in astronauts.
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posted 05 January, 2013
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