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How to steer a spacecraft into Saturn

(via Washington Post) A billion-dollar spacecraft named Cassini is about to burn up as it plunges into the atmosphere of

(via The Verge) There’s no such thing as an “ideal” space suit, because you need specific features for different environments.

(via The Atlantic) Today is the day a total solar eclipse will be seen over the continental United States. What

(via mental_floss) There’s a new resident of the International Space Station, and it’s definitely the cutest one there. The JEM

(via New Scientist) Astronauts could soon be waking up to the smell of freshly baked bread. A new dough mixture

June 7, 2017June 1, 2017 0 Comments awards, nasa, Space

(via Atlas Obscura) Yes, NASA really does give out a prestigious award called the Silver Snoopy. But it isn’t given

(via mental_floss) They’re probably the weirdest—and certainly the most puzzling—objects in the universe. And yet black holes are oddly familiar,

(via Real Clear Science) In all likelihood, a Martian colony won’t resemble a silver city rising in stark contrast to

(via NASA) NASA scientists have just released the first new global map of Earth at night since 2012. This nighttime

(via Buzzle) On April 13, 1970, disaster strikes 200,000 miles from Earth when oxygen tank No. 2 blows up on

(via Live Science) On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first

(via Smithsonian) Space is full of eye candy: exploding stars, nebulas of every shape and size, bizarre alien worlds. Though few