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...
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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...
Launch of TDRS-K on Atlas V
– ” For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Yesterday’s launch of NASA’s new tracking & data relay satellite TDRS-K on an Atlas V rocket. TDRS-K is a next-generation NASA relay satellite...
Mars Polar Ice Caps
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the polar ice caps seasonal variations. On Mars’ polar regions, carbon dioxide freezes up to 2 feet thick and...
NASA Reaching New Heights
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A recap of NASA’s recent achievements and a look into the future. President Obama called for the US to strengthen its technical lead and...
NASA Upgrades Chamber A To Enable Testing of Webb Telescope
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – An interesting video explaining how NASA have upgraded the largest thermal vacuum chamber in the world. The door itself is forty foot in diameter...
The Astro-H Mission
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A look at a future mission due to launch in mid 2013. The Astro-H space mission, (also known as NeXT/SXS) is led by the Japanese...
Age Old Sun Mystery Solved
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Why is the temperature of solar flares so much hotter than the surface of the Sun? This is an age old problem that has...
New Space Firm Plans To Mine Asteroids
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A new company, Deep Space Industries, has announced plans for mining asteroids. It intends to send a fleet of small prospecting spacecraft into the...
Top 10 Coolest Movie Spaceships
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A look at the best spaceships that science fiction has come up with. Who knows whether ships like these will ever travel the Universe....
Analysis of 2012 Global Temperature – NASA
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Interesting short video from NASA showing average global temepratures. It Shows that 2012 was the ninth warmest year since records began. The record dates...
