Stunning Spacewalk Video Shows An Astronaut-Eye View From The ISS
A video filmed on January 13th, 2017 by the European Space Agency shows two astronauts working on a power upgrade
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The Plan to Save the Most Important Piece of the Space Race
(via Popular Mechanics) Columbia, the Apollo 11 command module, will get its first significant conservation effort in 40 years—just in
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Want to know where every satellite and piece of space junk is?
Stuff in Space is an interactive visualization of all the objects orbiting the earth. Nearly everything that has ever been
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Point Nemo: The Spacecraft Cemetery
(via Amusing Planet) Far off the east coast of New Zealand, about 3,300 kilometers out in the Pacific Ocean, lies
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How small are we in the scale of the universe?
(via TED-ED) In 1995, scientists pointed the Hubble Telescope at an area of the sky near the Big Dipper. The
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The Apollo Astronaut Who Was Allergic to the Moon
(via mental_floss) The inside of Apollo 17’s lunar module smelled of gunpowder. It was December 1972, the last of NASA’s
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The Sculptor Who Designed the Earliest Space and Aviation Helmets
(via Atlas Obscura) During the height of 1960s space and flight exploration in the United States, Alice King Chatham worked behind
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Apollo 1: Pure oxygen, a single spark, and death in 17 seconds
(via Ars Technica) 50 years ago this week, on January 27, 1967, tragedy struck the Apollo Lunar program program when
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Cold War Secret: “Project Horizon”
(via Neatorama) On the evening of October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, into
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The Model T of Space: Russian Soyuz Spacecraft Turns 50
(via Popular Mechanics) When the Russian Soyuz spacecraft blasted into orbit for the first time, Lyndon Johnson was the president
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Inside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: NASA’s Crazy, Kooky, Legendary Research Facility
(via Popular Mechanics) Everyone’s talking about private industry getting humans on Mars. Mars trips! Mars houses! Mars colonies! But no
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Abandoned in space in 1967, a US satellite has started transmitting again
(via The Vintage News) An American satellite abandoned in 1967, now assumed to simply be space junk, has started transmitting
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