Space

NASA's SDO Spacecraft Captures Lunar Transit of the Sun

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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Nov 24 2014 - 6:36pm

History Made as 90,000 Earthlings Send Messages to Mars

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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Nov 29 2014 - 7:52am

Reasons To Mine The Moon

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Article - The Conversation - Nov 30 2014 - 12:10pm

Orion's Test Flight: Recovering America's Space Dream

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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Dec 3 2014 - 7:44pm

NASA's Orion Spacecraft Looks Retro but It's The Right Stuff.

Why does the new space craft look like a capsule?  The simple fact is that between a capsule and a space plane like the shuttle, a capsule is the better vehicle for a direct return trip from interplanetary space to Earths surface.  People my age, early-mid ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 7 2014 - 10:03am

Undiscovered Worlds and Pale Blue Dots

Undiscovered Worlds and Pale Blue Dots May 9th 2015 will see the inauguration of Cornell University's new Institute for Pale Blue Dots.  Details here. The first image of a "pale blue dot" was sent back by Voyager 1.  The "dot" is ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Dec 6 2014 - 6:43pm

How The Fast Winds Of Titan Shape Its Dunes

Titan is Saturn's largest moon and the only planetary body outside Venus, Earth and Mars to have fields of wind-blown dunes on its surface. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2014 - 6:28pm

Measuring The Cosmos- Now With Data

Researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Barcelona have used data from astronomical surveys to measure a standard distance that is central to our understanding of the expansion of the universe, a much more accurate method than calcul ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2014 - 4:22pm

Assessing the Asteroid Impact Threat: Are We Doomed Yet?

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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Dec 14 2014 - 5:24pm

JWST Facing Increased Schedule Risk with Significant Work Remaining

With just under 4 years until its planned launch in October 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project reports it remains on schedule and budget. However, technical challenges with JWST elements and major subsystems, have diminished the project� ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Mar 26 2019 - 4:30pm