Category: Space
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50 Years Ago: NASA Cancels Apollo 20 Mission
50 Years Ago: NASA Cancels Apollo 20 Mission 50 Years Ago: NASA Cancels Apollo 20 Mission Source: www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-nasa-cancels-apollo-20-mission/
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First Glimpses of Interstellar Comet Suggest It’s Not So Different
First Glimpses of Interstellar Comet Suggest It’s Not So Different Early observations of Comet C/2019 Q4, which will likely be declared the first confirmed interstellar comet, suggest that its composition is pretty similar to that of comets found in our own solar system. Source: www.space.com/interstellar-comet-initial-spectrum-looks-normal.html
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NASA’s New Horizons Makes First Detection of Kuiper Belt
NASA’s New Horizons Makes First Detection of Kuiper Belt NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made its first detection of its next flyby target, the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, more than four months ahead of its New Year’s 2019 close encounter. Source: www.nasa.gov/feature/ultima-in-view-nasa-s-new-horizons-makes-first-detection-of-kuiper-belt-flyby-target
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Stream 47 Hours of Classic Sci-Fi Novels & Stories: Asimov, Wells, Orwell, Verne, Lovecraft & More
Stream 47 Hours of Classic Sci-Fi Novels & Stories: Asimov, Wells, Orwell, Verne, Lovecraft & More Some very cool listening! Source: www.openculture.com/2018/04/stream-47-hours-of-classic-sci-fi-novels-stories-asimov-wells-orwell-verne-lovecraft-more.html
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Computer searches telescope data for evidence of distant planets
Computer searches telescope data for evidence of distant planets As part of an effort to identify distant planets hospitable to life, NASA has established a crowdsourcing project in which volunteers search telescopic images for evidence of debris disks around stars, which are good indicators of exoplanets. Using the results of that project, researchers at MIT…
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BFR, SLS, KRK and Long March 9 and probably in that order | News from the Galactic Centre
There has been a lot of hype about the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) and a lot of discussion about SpaceX’s ability to deliver on its plans. Additionally the plans of SpaceX have also shown up what NASA is planning to do with the Space Launch System (SLS). NASA’s plans are a little less ambitious…
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microprocessors used in spacecrafts – WikiChip
Very interesting read about the microprocessors used in various spacecraft . Throughout the years, microprocessors have played a large role in spacecrafts. space-qualified microprocessors are designed to be exceptionally reliable and highly durable. Due to their unique nature, the same set of chips that have been tested and proven to work are used in many spacecrafts. microprocessors used in spacecrafts
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Cicero’s Map to the Stars – Medieval manuscripts blog
Marcus Tullius Cicero, born on 3 January 106 BC, bestrides Latin literature like a colossus. The combination of an immense output of writings and a strong afterlife in the schools of late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, means that more manuscripts of Cicero’s work survive than of any other classical Latin author. Only…
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Why Didn’t Voyager Explore the Kuiper Belt?
New Horizons There’s a very good reason – it wasn’t discovered until 1992. At that stage, Voyager 1 was almost all the way across the the Kuiper Belt and Voyager 2 halfway through it! Source: pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/PI-Perspectives.php?page=piPerspective_02_28_2018 From the article – “But, perhaps most important is the question: could Voyager have flown by a small KBO…
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Launceston planetarium marks 50 years
Fabulous to see! Launceston planetarium marks 50 years Time stands still for Launceston’s planetarium with little changing in the past 50 years. Source: www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-23/launceston-planetarium-marks-50-years/9408338
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NASA Is Bringing Back Cold War-Era Atomic Rockets to Get to Mars
Always loved the idea of going to Mars on an atomic rocket. NASA Is Bringing Back Cold War-Era Atomic Rockets to Get to Mars Nuclear-powered spacecraft would cut travel time to the red planet. Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-15/nasa-is-bringing-back-cold-war-era-atomic-rockets-to-get-to-mars
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DIY DSKY: Apollo astronaut keypad being rebooted as open source replica
THIS I LIKE! Replica of the Apollo era DSKY computer. Compared to the computer interfaces of today, the display keyboard used by the Apollo astronauts aboard their spacecraft might look quaint — until you recall that it was central to flying to the first humans to the moon almost half a century ago. Now, a…