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An alternate plan for NASA
John Hunt lives in Southern California. He is a frequent contributor to the...
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Interview with Orbiter Sim creator M...
Have you ever dreamed of being an astronaut? Have you every imagined youself...
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Watch NASA’s live feed of STS-...
This is it. The beginning of the end. Atlantis will lift off for the last time...
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Apollo 13, 40 years ago
40 years ago, a fault in the electrical system of one of the Service...
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Watch NASA’s live feed of STS-131
Boy, what a birthday. I get a Space Shuttle launch, plus I get to publish...
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SpaceShipTwo takes off
Virgin Galactic announced yesterday that VSS Enterprise successfully made its...
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Watch NASA’s live feed of STS-...
We’ve posted a lot of space-related news lately, but this is hardly a...
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NASA and GM’s Humanoid Robot
The web–or maybe just the geeky part of the web–seems to be ablaze...
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NASA’s bold new plan
Three months ago, NASA conducted the first test takeoff of the rocket that was...
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What next for Spirit?
As you might have heard, Spirit (NASA’s first of two Mars Exploration...
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Movie of the month: Capricorn One
I loathe conspiracy theories. They’re so pretentious, and they leave...
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Sofia’s Doors Open
The SOFIA airborne telescope successfully passed its most important test...
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A Commercial Space Race?
(1) In 1950, no human made object had ever reached orbit. (2) In 1970, humans...
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A wise telescope launched today
NASA’s latest space telescope, WISE, was launched a few dozen of...
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SpaceShipTwo unveiled!
Remember SpaceShipOne? That very sexy ship that earned its company, Scaled...
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Headlines: Spiral of doom edition
Hello everyone, here is another weekly headlines roundup. The last 7 days were...
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SOFIA and other flying telescopes
Meet Sofia. The fattest flying telescope around. A flying telescope…...
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Science@ESA vodcasts
Some of my most cherished childhood memories involve my dad bringing me to the...
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Program Constellation takes off, and...
October 28th was blessed by Ares I’s first test flight. Ares I and Ares...
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“Atlantis, Houston, go at thro...
Cape Canaveral. Launchpad 39a. Novermber 16th, 2009. 2:28 p.m. EST. A swarm of...
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Watch NASA’s live feed of STS-...
Enjoy a live feed of today’s space shuttle launch, STS-129. This will be...
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There’s water on the moon!
October 9th, 2009. What a day. Obama gets his Nobel prize, a clown broadcasts...




