Posts Tagged ‘NASA’
Boy Oh Boy it Sure Is Windy Out There
IN SPACE!!! Bet you didn’t see that coming. NASA Observatory records 20 million-mph winds off stellar-mass black hole NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has recorded ultra-fast 20 million mph (32 million km/h) winds...
Space X Test Launching Closer
from http://www.universetoday.com/ Just In From SpaceX: Dragon and Falcon 9 Assembly Now Complete Today SpaceX today released an image of the fully assembled Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket inside their facility at Cape Can...
Astronaut and Robonaut “R2″ shake hands on the ISS
Immediately after the handshake, R2 broke his neck and threw him out of the air lock. Ok that isn’t true but it is how Hollywood would like us to believe it should have gone down. The real story from gizmag.com NASA has b...
Is There Life On Mars?
David Bowie has been asking. There might be flowing water so there is a chance. Dramatic images of dried-up floodplains and apparent riverbeds have most astronomers convinced that liquid water once gushed on Mars, perhaps suppo...
This Day in History Feb. 1, 2003 – Second Shuttle Lost
I’m not going to post the video of Columbia disintegrating. Instead I am posting the video of the shuttle lift-off, it is more important. Our journey into space will go on. Report by Wired.com 2003: Columbia disintegra...
“The Most Amazing Highest Resolution Image of Earth Ever,” Says NASA
It is so high resolution that it doesn’t look real, weird how that works . NASA has released a new Blue Marble image, showing the United States of America. According to them, it’s the “most amazing, highest re...
Meteorite from Mars falls in Morocco
The Associated Press reports that the meteorite fireball was seen in the sky six months ago, but the rocks from the red planet weren’t discovered in Morocco until December. It marks only the fifth time scientists have confirm...
NASA News: Tiny Solar System Discovered
I can’t wait for the Disney / Pixlar movie about this one! Jan. 11, 2012: Astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler mission have discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting a star beyond our sun....
And the Spiders from Mars
Curiosity is back on track on it’s way to Mars -the big red planet from that move Total Recall It is the biggest, most capable spacecraft ever sent to touch the surface of another planet. It will hopefully find somethi...
NASA’s answers doomsday predictions
If you go by the Mayan calendar (hard to imagine that hanging up next to your refrigerator) next year’s winter solstice marks the end of a 144,000 day cycle. The cycle had been repeated 12 times already and December 21st ...
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