Tag Archives: space program

Spacecraft Lands Safely On Comet 67P

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NASA Rocket Expodes On Launch

The unmanned rocket carried supplies for the ISS. The evening launch from Virginia was to have been visible to millions on the East Coast and many media outlets hyped the viewing today to their readers.

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Buzz Aldrin: Get Your Ass To Mars

Yesterday Buzz Aldrin, the lunar module pilot of Apollo 11 and the second person to walk on the moon, held a Q&A on Twitter about his time as an astronaut. Aldrin closed the session with the above question. See the responses. Some of those viewing the video feed were curious about Aldrin’s t-shirt, which he’s selling on his website. The …

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NASA Spacecraft Orbits Mars

Via the New York Times: NASA’s latest Mars spacecraft, Maven, arrived Sunday evening to study the mystery of what happened to the planet’s air. After a 33-minute engine firing, mission controllers received acknowledgment at about 10:25 p.m. Eastern time that Maven was in orbit around Mars. After a six-week period to turn on and check systems on the spacecraft and …

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Ken Ham: NASA Is Wasting Taxpayers’ Money Because God Only Made Humans

“I’m shocked at the countless hundreds of millions of dollars that have been spent over the years in the desperate and fruitless search for extraterrestrial life. Of course, secularists are desperate to find life in outer space, as they believe that would provide evidence that life can evolve in different locations and given the supposed right conditions! The search for …

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NASA Celebrates LGBT Pride Month

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UPDATED: Sally Ride & Bayard Rustin Get Presidential Medal Of Freedom

Accepting the medals on behalf of their late partners were Tam O’Shaughnessy (Sally Ride) and Walter Naegle (Bayard Rustin). Both presentations were preceded by the off-stage announcer recounting the contributions made by Ride and Rustin to the history of the LGBT movement. The live stream has now concluded.

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HomoQuotable – Tam O’Shaughnessy

“It’s scary to be open because you don’t realized the impact that it might have on so many aspects of your life. You worry about grants, about whether you’ll be able to continue writing children’s textbooks; we were scared that if sponsors knew the founders of Sally Ride Science were two lesbians, if that would affect our organization. I wanted …

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Civil Rights Pioneer Bayard Rustin And Astronaut Sally Ride To Be Posthumously Awarded Presidential Medal Of Freedom

Civil rights pioneer (and gay man) Bayard Rustin, who organized the 1963 March On Washington, and astronaut Sally Ride, who (at her request) was outed after her death of cancer last year, will be among the recipients of this year’s Presidential Medal Of Freedom awards, the highest honor given to any civilian. Via press release from the White House: This …

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NASA’s Photo Of The Day

NASA explains today’s photo: The Great Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda (aka M31), a mere 2.5 million light-years distant, is the closest large spiral to our own Milky Way. Andromeda is visible to the unaided eye as a small, faint, fuzzy patch, but because its surface brightness is so low, casual skygazers can’t appreciate the galaxy’s impressive extent in planet Earth’s …

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TRAILER: Gravity

IO9 raves: Alfonso Cuaron’s latest Gravity trailer will knock the wind right out of you. The simple two-minute clip — made entirely in one take — shows what happens when things fall apart for George Clooney and Sandra Bullock in space. It is simply stunning. Earlier this year The Film Stage revealed that Gravity only has 156 shots in its …

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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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ASAP Science: Can We Stop An Asteroid?

This one features Bill Nye.

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NASA Staffers: It Gets Better

(Via Towleroad)

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Late Lesbian Astronaut Sally Ride To Get Posthumous Medal Of Freedom

President Obama revealed yesterday that he will honor late astronaut Sally Ride with the Medal Of Freedom. Via White House press release: The Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant …

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TRAILER: Gravity

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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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NYC From The Space Station

Another photo from Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. I’m at the yellow dot.

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Three Years Of Sun In Three Minutes

NASA explains: In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun’s rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle. This video shows those three years of the sun at a pace of two …

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