Tag Archives: space travel

Muslim Leaders Declare Martian Fatwa

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Virgin Galactic Makes Test Flight

Via the Los Angeles Times: Virgin Galactic, British billionaire Richard Branson’s commercial space venture, reached its highest altitude yet Friday in a supersonic rocket plane that’s set to carry paying customers into sub-orbit later this year. The company’s SpaceShipTwo blasted through the sound barrier and sped to Mach 1.4, climbing to 71,000 feet in its first powered test flight of …

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Former Canadian Defense Minister: Aliens Exist And They Walk Among Us

From the International Business Times: Lots of people believe in extraterrestrial life forms, but not many can give specific details about what they look like and where they’re living. But that’s just what Paul Hellyer, the now-90-year-old former defense minister of Canada, did in his recent interview with Russia Today, claiming there are 80 different species of alien life, from …

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Lady Gaga To Sing In Space

Lady Gaga has booked a ticket on Virgin Galactic and will perform a song from low-orbit in 2015. Seriously. The “Dope” performer, 27, is set to blast off in a Virgin Galactic ship and belt out a single track during the Zero G Colony high-tech musical festival in New Mexico. “She has to do a month of vocal training because …

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Photo Of The Day: The Earth From Saturn

Sky News reports: The Cassini spacecraft has captured a rare image of Earth taken hundreds of millions of miles away from the outer Solar System. The picture was captured on July 19 by the probe’s wide-angle camera from a distance of 900 million miles. Magnifying the image five times reveals not only the Earth but also the Moon, a fainter …

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Chris Hadfield – Space Oddity

In what may be the coolest clip I’ve ever seen, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield bid farewell to his time on the International Space Station with the below version of David Bowie’s classic, Space Oddity.  Best comment on YouTube: “Most expensive music video ever.”  CNET has more: Mixed with the help of staff at the Canadian Space Agency, musician Emm Gryner, …

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UFO Believers Convene In DC

Do you believe?

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Russia Considers Moon Mission

It was 52 years ago today that cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth. According to this Russia Today report, Russia is ramping up their space program and is considering an attempt to establish a lunar base.

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Morning In NYC From Space

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield tweeted the above photo from the International Space Station. (Via Gothamist)

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Best Selfie Ever

(Via Buzzfeed Andrew)

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Ahmadinejad: I Want To Be An Astronaut

Ahmadinejad wants to go to space. “I’m ready to be the first Iranian to sacrifice myself for our country’s scientists,” the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying in an address to space scientists in Tehran. Space tourist Anousheh Ansari was the first Iranian to make a journey into space aboard a Soyuz TMA-9 capsule from Baikonur, Kazakhastan, in …

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Astronauts Launch For Space Station

Associated Press: “A Soyuz spacecraft carrying three astronauts, NASA’s Tom Marshburn, Russia’s Roman Romanenko, and Canada’s Chris Hadfield, took off atop a towering Russian rocket on Wednesday, headed for the International Space Station.”

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Romney On The Space Program

Added today to Mitt Romney’s campaign site: “America must have a forward-looking, visionary space policy and Mitt Romney has the determination and the focus on technology we need to chart a clear path. Today’s U.S. policy lacks direction and along the way we have become completely dependent on the Russians to continue human exploration. That is not acceptable. We have …

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From The International Space Station

Gorgeous.

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Russia & Japan Want Moon Bases

Move over Newt Gingrich, you’ve got company. At the Global Space Exploration Conference, which started on May 22 — the same day SpaceX successfully launched its Dragon capsule towards the ISS, which is why NASA administrator Charles Bolden was absent from the conference — Russia and Japan laid out their plans for space exploration, both focusing on Earth’s natural satellite. …

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Private Rocket Enroute To Space Station

The world’s first private rocket is on its way to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off early Tuesday morning on an unmanned supply mission. If the mission goes well, it could change space travel forever, marking the start of what could be a new era in American spaceflight. You could think of the launch as …

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Swingrich: I Will Establish A Permanent Lunar Colony Filled With Moon-Hoes

Newt Gingrich, pandering in Florida: “By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American,” Gingrich said to applause. He said the development would include commercial and private efforts, and will make apparent, “we clearly have the capacity that Chinese and the Russians will never come anywhere close …

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NASA Launches Mars Rover

Los Angeles Times reports: With the roar of an Atlas 5 engine, NASA on Saturday began its boldest venture yet to another planet — sending the Mars Science Laboratory on an eight-month journey expected to provide more detailed information about whether the Red Planet is, or ever has been, hospitable to life.Its payload was the rover Curiosity, the largest and …

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White House Denies Alien Contact

The White House has formally responded to two petitions demanding that the federal government finally come clean about all those aliens they’re hiding at Area 51 or wherever. “The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race,” Phil Larson from the …

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Space, Junked

In the mere 54 years since the advent of the space age, the nations of Earth have created an orbiting trash pile of more than 150,000 pieces of junk. Now, finally, comes the call for a clean-up campaign. Because it has become increasingly difficult to fly through all that crap. The National Research Council says that the amount of space …

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