Unlocking The Mysteries of The Universe
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – How the sky and stars are being digitised to help unlock the mysteries of the Universe. As this huge database comes to fruition it...
Monthly Archive: February 2013
Captain Kirk Talks To Countryman on Station
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Captain Kirk (William Shatner) talks to Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency who is aboard the ISS. Kirk asks some interesting questions regarding the...
OSIRIS-REx Targets Near Earth Objects
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – NASA is sending the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to asteroid 1999 RQ36 to study the evolution of its orbit and to retrieve a sample for return...
Soviet Manned Lunar Landing – An Orbiter Video by Timm Humphreys
– “For You TO Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here’s a video which shows what may have happened had the Soviet Union not cancelled its ‘Man on The Moon’ mission due to technical...
Experiments With Laser Communications
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – NASA experimenting communications with lasers by sending an image of the ‘Mona Lisa’ to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). It is hoped that communications with...
Record Setting Asteroid Flyby Due February 15th
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – On Feb. 15th an asteroid about half the size of a football field will fly past Earth closer than many man-made satellites. There is...
Iran Space Monkey
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Iran is claiming that it has sent a monkey into space and returned it back to Earth alive. If correct, this is a big...
Night Sky – February 2013
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here’s a recap from the JPL of what we can expect in the night sky this February. On February 15 a small asteroid named...
Chinese Probe’s Close Encounter With An Asteroid
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A Chinese deep space probe had a very close encounter with asteroid Toutatis in December 2012. The achievement signals China’s entry into yet another...
Ring-shaped Prominence Erupts from Sun
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A coronal mass ejection on 31st January 2013 was accompanied by a large eruption as can be seen in this amazing video. The images...
Update From NASA – 30th January 2013
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is the latest update from NASA with information on the newly launched TDRS-K and the robotic mission. In addition some information on why...
