Tag: nasa
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Over 1,000 chosen for one-way #Mars reality-TV mission
from channelnewsasia.com: More than 1,000 candidates — from 200,000 hopefuls — have been chosen to train for a private Mars colonisation mission to be partly funded by a reality-TV show following their training and subsequent steps, organisers said Thursday. They are to be whittled down to just 24, who will be sent over six launches…
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Comet #ISON Is Really Done For
from guardianlv.com: Comet ISON appears really done for this time. It was first reported to have been destroyed when it passed by the sun. That information was apparently to some degree exaggerated, but it appears this time that the comet’s demise is the real thing. Fragments of the object which had been called the “comet…
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NASA’s MAVEN Mars Probe Roars Into Orbit
from theregister.co.uk: Scientists and engineers at the agency and Lockheed Martin have spent the last five years building the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft (MAVEN), a 2.5-ton orbital platform that will probe what remains of the Red Planet’s atmosphere to work out how Mars lived, and how we can live on it – as…
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One in five suns has habitable world
from bbc.co.uk: Astronomers have estimated how many of the 100 billion stars in our galaxy hosts a potentially habitable planet. Using data from Nasa’s Kepler space telescope, they argue that one in five stars like the Sun hosts an Earth-sized world located in the “habitable zone”. This zone is the region around a star where…
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Comet ISON: Will the Government Shutdown Ruin NASA’s Big Chance?
from policymic.com: On October 1, the comet ISON will pass near Mars, where monitoring equipment can gain more information on what could be the comet of the century. As long as the coincidental government shutdown causing the furlough of nearly the entire workforce of NASA doesn’t interrupt these observations, that is.
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‘Supermoon’ Science: Biggest Full Moon of 2013 Explained
from space.com: There is more to a “supermoon” than meets the eye. Science governs the appearance of the largest full moon of the year, and this weekend you can check out the amazing lunar sight for yourself. On Sunday (June 23), the moon will be at its closest point to Earth — called perigee. This…
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NASA taps 3-D printer firm for ‘Star Trek’-style food replicator
from rawstory.com: U.S. space agency NASA has tapped 3-D printer firm Systems & Materials Research Corporation (SMRC) to create the first-ever “Star Trek”-style food replicator using 3-D printing technology. According to Quartz, NASA gave the company a six month, $125,000 grant contract to focus on developing 3-D printers that use cartridges full of carbohydrates,…
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Biggest meteor hits Moon
from ITwire.com: The U.S. space agency NASA has been watching the Moon for about eight years, looking for signs of meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. The results show that hundreds of recorded impacts occur each year. However, the biggest one ever recorded occurred on March 17th. Bill Cooke, of the Meteoroid Environment Office at…
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Kepler: A Unique Space Telescope
The Kepler Space Telescope makes news with announcements of habitable exo-planets as NASA reports a total of 122 confirmed planets.
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Secret Space Vol. 1
Chris Everard produced and narrated informative “Secret Space”. “From the late 1940s onwards, an unholy alliance of O.T.O devotees, NAZIs and senior 33rd degree Freemasons dupe the American taxpayer of billions of dollars and fake several moon missions in order to further their work on secret ‘black budget’ operations — a series of secret space…
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Earth’s Missing Moon
According to recent scientific speculation, the Earth once had two moons gracing our night skies.
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To The Moon? Firm Hopes To Sell $1.5 Billion Trips
A team of former NASA executives is launching a private venture to send people to the moon for a price that is definitely out of this world.
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Fermi Measures Cosmic ‘Fog’ Produced by Ancient Starlight
from spacedaily.com: Astronomers using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have made the most accurate measurement of starlight in the universe and used it to establish the total amount of light from all of the stars that have ever shone, accomplishing a primary mission goal. “The optical and ultraviolet light from stars continues to…
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The True History And Purpose Of NASA
A Colombian Enterprise to Endeavor for the Discovery of Atlantis. . . and all Challengers shall be destroyed.
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Auroras Treat Viewers On Oct 8th, 2012
NASA website reports: “…coronal mass ejection [CME] that erupted from the sun on Oct. 4, 2012 at 11:24 p.m. EDT arrived at Earth on Oct. 8 at 12:30 a.m. EDT, as observed by instruments aboard NASA’s Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft.” CME caused geomagnetic storms when it reached Earth’s magnetosphere, resulting in Auroras. A description…