National Day of Remembrance on Thursday to Pay Tribute to Apollo, Shuttle Astronauts
NASA and the larger space community will honor the 17 men and women who have perished in American spacecraft during ceremonies on Thursday at the Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington D. C. Additional memorials are planned this week at the Johnson Space...Apollo Stamp Wins Top Slot!
The votes are in! In a “stampede” of competition between stamps that are iconic images tied to the United States, the Moon landing stamp was voted top slot and will represent the USA in the International Gallery Exhibit of the new William H. Gross Stamp Gallery at the...CSExtra – Tuesday, January 25, 2011
To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@space.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Tuesday’s CSExtra features the latest reporting and commentary on space related...NASA Offers $$ to Amateur Astronomers for Satellite Photos
NASA is rounding up amateur photographers who would like a chance to win up to $500 for the best photographs of the recently deployed NanoSail-D spacecraft, an orbiting solar sail experiment. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Ames Research Center...CSExtra – Monday, January 24, 2011
To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@space.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Monday’s CSExtra offers a roundup of space-related reporting and commentary from...Book Review: John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon by John M. Logsdon; Palgrave Macmillan; New York, New York; $35.00 (Hardcover); 2010. In a time when America is looking for another “Sputnik Moment” to spur the country on a number of fronts, this scholarly and well-written...Challenger Tragedy Remembered: A Range of Reactions 25 Years Later
Experts at Florida State University have provided insight regarding the upcoming 25th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster in which all astronauts on board, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, were lost 73 seconds after liftoff. The disaster on...Japanese Supply Capsule Heads for International Space Station
A towering Japanese HII-B rocket thundered away from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan early Saturday, initiating a five-day journey to the International Space Station for Kounotori, an unmanned cargo transport carrying 5.3 tons of spare parts, food, research gear...Spacewalking Cosmonauts Equip International Space Station With Communications Antenna, Video Camera
Russian cosmonauts Dmitry Kondratyev and Oleg Skripochka breezed through a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, installing a communications antenna and video camera as well as collecting external science experiments. The work outside the...Space Talk
A new UK law claims to make reporting child sexual abuse mandatory.
It isn’t. The part that actually mattered got left out, and the government’s own paperwork predicts who’ll simply ignore it.
I wrote about why. 👇
https://adifferentperspectiveuk.substack.com/p/when-mandatory-doesnt-mean-what-we?r=8q5uso&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=split
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.@BrBobMackeSJ of @VaticanObserv designed a custom instrument for @NASA known as a #pycnometer, tailored to the mission's needs. This specialized tool is used for measuring the density and porosity of tiny grains of gravels from Bennu. 🇻🇦🇺🇲🪨 #OsirisRex #NASA #Vatican #astronomy
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China's game plan in New space race to Moon's South Pole https://bit.ly/4g3ezAg
North America gets a solar eclipse on August 12th https://bit.ly/4qnXWTd
NASA invites ISRO to join Moon Base program https://bit.ly/4x75DQv
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Far beyond the planets may lie the Oort Cloud, a vast shell of icy objects stretching as far as 1.6 light-years from the Sun. ☄️
We’ve never observed it directly, but comet orbits suggest it may be the source of many long-period comets.
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