President Obama’s new budget predicts a gigantic 1.6 trillion dollar deficit for this year and consequently NASA has been screwed up the arse.. Obama is dumping the only good decision George Bush ever made and scrapping plans to return to the Moon :(
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In May this year the EPOXI spacecraft (formerly known as Deep Impact) turned its cameras around from a distance of 50 million km and captured images for several hours.
These images, which included the moon passing in front of the Earth have been put together into an awesome animation. Enjoy!
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I love this image, it’s awe-inspiring and highlights what our science is capable of… it makes me proud to be part of mankind.
NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander can be seen parachuting down to Mars, in this image captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This is the first [...]
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This “smiley face” crater was imaged by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter last week.
The unnamed crater is about 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) across. It is located among the Nereidum Montes, north of the Argyre basin, near 45.1°S, 55.0°W. North is toward the right and sunlight illuminates the scene from the upper right.
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The Japan Origami Plane Association together with the University of Tokyo have plans to fly a paper airplane from the International Space Station to Earth. The group have developed and tested a prototype which has withstood temperatures of around 300 degrees, simulating the conditions expected during reentry into the atmosphere at over 24,000 km/h.
The group [...]
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This image of the Space Shuttle Columbia blasting off the launch pad was photographed from altitude by NASA Astronaut John W. Young aboard the Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) on November 12, 1981.
It’s a viewpoint not commonly seen and is absolutely awesome imo.
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The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has captured some impressive high definition footage of our nearest neighbor. The images were taken on October 31 by the KAGUYA spacecraft.
The image shooting was carried out by the onboard high definition television (HDTV) of the KAGUYA, and it is the world’s first high definition image data acquisition of [...]
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Google is offering up to $30 million prize money for the first private company to land a rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of pics and video.
Google has partnered with the X Prize Foundation for this lunar challenge, they are the guys who put up the prize for the first manned private [...]
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The original lightsaber used by Luke (Mark Hamill) will blast off into space in October aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery bound for the ISS.
This pointless (but geeky cool) exercise is to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Wars: A New Hope.
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This image of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on top of it’s 747 carrier was captured by NASA’s Carla Thomas at Edwards Air Force Base on July 1, 2007.
NASA has 2 modified 747 jumbo jets which are used as carriers to return shuttles from landing sites back to the launch complex at Kennedy Space Center.
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This is an image of the Space Shuttle Atlantis docking with the International Space Station.
The shot was taken from the ground through a 25 inch telescope with adaptive optics.
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