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"\"TweetShareShareWith the Hubble Legacy Field, what it doesn’t capture is as remarkable as what it...
"\"TweetShareShareWith the Hubble Legacy Field, what it doesn’t capture is as remarkable as what it...
"\"TweetShareShareI’m a little late on this (thanks to Eric Desfonds of Excelitas for the reminder this morning), but GEDI launched on Wednesday, Dec. 5, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket. It’s being integrated on the International Space...
"\"TweetShareShareI was hanging out at the YMCA of the Rockies Estes Park craft center a couple of weeks back, scrolling through emails as my daughters glued colorful glass shards to pale pine cigarette boxes, when an email came in. Subject line:...
"\"TweetShareShareYou may have heard: NASA has a mission flying past\\u00a0Pluto tomorrow. New Horizons. The thing’s been in space for nine-and-a-half years. I was there at the launch, covering it for the Boulder\\u00a0Daily Camera. Wrote...
"\"TweetShareShareMy 12-year-old daughter,\\u00a0as 12-year-old daughters do,\\u00a0asked me what’s the use of math. I wrote a book about space engineers.\\u00a0Their work is the manifestation of math. I have taken to answering...
"\"TweetShareShareA closely held secret among journalists is that, once you write a story, the mind tends to shed the details rather hastily. And so, despite seeming authoritative — and actually being rather authoritative — for the...
"\"TweetShareShareHumanity\\u2019s second-ever comet landing happens today when the European Space Agency\\u2019s Rosetta spacecraft (technically, the Philae lander) touches down on the comet Churumov-Gerasimenko at 16:00 UTC, or 11 a.m. Eastern,...
"\"TweetShareShareIt’s only been a couple of hours since Virgin Galactic lost its SpaceShipTwo spacecraft. The names of the pilots — one dead, one clinging to life — have yet to be released. I got the initial word via Twitter, a...
"\"TweetShareShareAfter finishing up my moderating duties at Compliance Week 2014, I put on my running stuff and headed to the National Mall, destination National Air and Space Museum. The aim was to see something very specific, an instrument...
"\"TweetShareShareNASA sent out a press release with two Mars-related news items yesterday. Whether this was an attempt to bury the bad news, you decide. First, the good news: An erstwhile freshwater lake in what’s now Gale Crater, whose...
"TweetShareShareThe small team still running Deep Impact, in orbit for going on nine years, on Aug. 8 lost touch with the spacecraft. Deep Impact smacked the comet Tempel 1 on Independence Day 2005 and went on to swing by a second comet, Hartley 2...
"\"TweetShareShareThe most important spacecraft since the Hubble Space Telescope has been felled by a couple of reaction wheels that stubbornly held to their predicted useful lives, NASA reports. Something about Kepler, despite its stubborn...
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