Tag: "NASA"
Hey, Aliens? A Little Help?
Yep, even astronauts mess up once in a while. A spacewalking astronaut faced down a grease gun explosion only to lose a tool bag on Tuesday during an ambitious clean-and-grease job outside the International Space Station. Veteran spacewalker Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper lost her grip on the bag while cleaning up a mess from a leaking grease [...]
Shuttle Endeavor Lights Up the Sky
Endeavour lifted off from Florida just a few minutes ago, on its way to the International Space Station. Apparently, it’s taking the Extreme Makeover: Space Station Improvement crew along with it because it’s carrying an additional sleeping quarters, a second toilet (Umm…they only had one? That had to get awkward), some exercise equipment, a new [...]
The Warmest October Wasn’t Entirely October
Did we just survive the warmest October ever? Not exactly. NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies Surface Temperature Analysis (GISSTemp), which has become the semi-private playground of Climate Change Panicmonger James Hansen, reported half a continent worth of temperatures wrong. A bunch of reporting stations in Russia and Siberia used the same temperatures for October [...]
So Long and Thanks for All the Science!
Sometime in the very near future, the first manmade satellite to leave the Solar System will crack the heliosphere and enter the trackless void of near-nothingness we call space. Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 and, along with its twin, Voyager 2 (which, oddly enough, was launched before Voyager 1) gave us some of the [...]
That’s No Moon! It’s A…No…Wait..It Is A Moon.
Allow me a Keanu Reeves-like “Whoa” here. This video, from the Deep Impact spacecraft is truly awe-inspiring.
Another Phoenix Has Landed…on Mars
I must say, for as much trash as I have talked about NASA’s limited vision of space explorations these days, they do seem to be getting an awfully big bang for the pittance we allot them. They, in cooperation with the Canadian Space Agency and two American universities, have landed the Phoenix Mars Lander. Unlike [...]
Cool Space Stuff – Lightning on Saturn
This is truly awesome. A monster storm spawning bolts of lightning 10,000 times more powerful than any seen on Earth is raging on the ringed planet Saturn. The powerful electrical storm cropped up in Saturn’s southern hemisphere five months ago, when it was first spotted by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, and has persevered to become the [...]
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