4 month ago
nelson : Twitter / MarsPhoenix - Follow the lander
Simon Willison : Twitter / MarsPhoenix - Twitter / MarsPhoenix. NASA’s Mars Phoenix lander, due to land on the planet today, has a Twitter account. Bio: “I dig Mars!”.
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gleuschk : NASA - Total Lunar Eclipse: February 20, 2008 - marked on my calendar
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9 month ago
wearehugh : Touch the Invisible Sky: Exploring the Cosmos in Braille
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factoryjoe : In the Shadow of the Moon - apparently I should see this. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: movie
deusx : In the Shadow of the Moon - remember when the whole world looked up
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18 month ago
deusx : Modded Recumbent Bikes Rip Through NASA Ames - - "Send someone to NASA Ames Research Center, and they're sure to expect rocket scientists and spaceships. But on a recent rainy morning, more than 100 budding engineers raced around Moffett Field on bikes for the annual Human Powered Vehicle Challenge
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24 month ago
plasticbag : The BBC report on the spotting of the Mars rover from space - I'll resist the temptation to mock and say that we sort of already knew that was there, and instead ask why on earth the BBC or NASA would say that there's a picture of the mars rover that's visible from space and then show a picture in which it clearly i
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28 month ago
merlinmann : NPR : Wayne Hale's Insider's Guide to NASA - "The e-mails deal with things that NASA people might feel, but rarely talk about."
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31 month ago
deusx : The Silent Speaker - Forbes.com - "Jorgensen sees the day when electromagnetic sensors will be woven into the fibers of turtlenecks or rescue workers' outfits."
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31 month ago
deusx : BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Mars orbiter reaches Red Planet - "The re-establishment of contact half an hour later was met with jubilation from the mission team at the US space agency's (Nasa) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California."
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32 month ago
deusx : Man Who Left NASA Says He's Under Attack - Yahoo! News - '"I have never been told to censor science, to squelch anything or to insert religion into any issue, absolutely not," said the former Bush campaign worker.' Oh, poor baby. You may not have been asked explicitly, but you did it anyway.
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32 month ago
deusx : A Young Bush Appointee Resigns His Post at NASA - New York Times - "George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word "theory" at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agenc
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32 month ago
deusx : The Scientific Activist: Reporting from the Crossroads of Science and Politics: BREAKING NEWS: George Deutsch Did Not Graduate From Texas A & M University - "Through my own investigations I have just discovered that George Deutsch, the Bush political appointee at the heart of administration efforts to censor NASA scientists (most notably to prevent James Hansen from speaking out about global warming), did not
jimray : BREAKING NEWS: George Deutsch Did Not Graduate From Texas A & M University - Kid who told actual scientists to add psuedo-religious statements to their reports didn't actually graduate from college.
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32 month ago
jimray : Outrage at attacks on NASA science - It seems that some punkass 24 year old kid from Texas A&M is now dictating NASA's science policy. This is sheer lunacy.
deusx : Bad Astronomy Blog » Blog Archive » Outrage at attacks on NASA science - "NASA is not in the business of teaching religion. They should be teaching science, and the Big Bang is definitely science."
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33 month ago
jkottke : Newsdesigner has the front pages of newspapers from when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on takeoff twenty years ago - Newsdesigner has the front pages of newspapers from when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on takeoff twenty years ago.
kayodeok : "They Slipped the Surly Bonds of Earth to Touch the Face of God" - On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 74 seconds after liftoff. Here are some front pages from that day and the next, culled mostly from the 7th edition of SND's Best of Newspaper Design book
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33 month ago
Linkorama : New Horizons - New Horizons launches on voyage to Pluto and beyond
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36 month ago
deusx : NASA - How We'll Get Back to the Moon - Finally waking up from the shuttle disaster? (The whole program, that is.) "Building on the best of Apollo and shuttle technology, NASA's creating a 21st century exploration system that will be affordable, reliable, versatile, and safe."
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36 month ago
jimray : Slashdot | NASA BlueMarble: Next Generation - Brilliant images of Earth from space
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Pop Time Capsule Returns to Earth - Somewhere out past Mars, Adolf Hitler floats through space - along with Elvis, Darth Vader and an advertisement for a porn website
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38 month ago
kayodeok : WSJ.com - Requiem for the Future - Where Are the Interplanetary Wonders We Read About When We Were Kids?
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Wired News: Moon Could Be Next Tourist Trap - The company that pioneered commercial space travel by sending "tourists" up to the International Space Station is planning a new mission: rocketing people around the far side of the moon
deusx : Wired News: Moon Could Be Next Tourist Trap - "The first mission by Space Adventures could happen in 2008 or 2009 and is planned as a stepping stone to an eventual lunar landing by private citizens."
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38 month ago
kayodeok : NASA - Space Shuttle Landing 101 - Below are some of the key events that take place at each milestone prior to touchdown
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38 month ago
Isofarro : Discovery returns safely to Earth - Welcome home Discovery!
jkottke : Shuttle lands safely - Space Shuttle Discovery lands safely, thank goodness.
kayodeok : Discovery returns safely to Earth - The crew of the shuttle Discovery has touched down successfully in California after the first mission since 2003's Columbia disaster
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38 month ago
kayodeok : CNN.com - 'Discovery is home' - Aug 9, 2005 - Shuttle completes first mission since loss of Columbia
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38 month ago
kayodeok : How To Fly The Space Shuttle - When you are bringing a powered plane in for landing, if you think you are not quite going to make it to the runway, it is no big deal.. just a add a bit of power to cover the extra distance! Need a little more speed maybe? Again no problem: Just add powe
Charles Miller : How to land the Space Shuttle - As Discovery gets final clearance for touchdown, here's the guide to landing the Space Shuttle manually in the X-Plane simulator.
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39 month ago
kayodeok : NASA - Steve Robinson: First Podcaster From Space - One day before landing, STS-114 Mission Specialist Steve Robinson transmitted the first podcast from space
deusx : NASA - Steve Robinson: First Podcaster From Space - "One day before landing, STS-114 Mission Specialist Steve Robinson transmitted the first podcast from space. "
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