The Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off from the Cape on Friday to begin it’s 11 day mission, during which it will dock with the International Space Station (ISS) to deliver equipment and replace an ISS crew member who has been there for 6 months.
STS-117 is the 118th Space Shuttle flight and will be the 21st […]
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This is one of the best UFO documentaries ever made.
Directed by Jose Escamilla it includes interviews with some very highly credible people and also features footage that is difficult to explain.
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This is a vid on the Pale Blue Dot, an iconic image captured by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from a distance of 6.4 billion kilometres (4 billion miles) on February 14, 1990.
The vid has been put together by aspiring film maker David Fu and it’s a great piece of work. Carl Sagan’s narration is […]
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Fascinating interview with Buzz Aldrin (second man on the Moon) talking about a UFO encounter en route to the Moon on Apollo 11.
“There was something out there, close enough to be observed, and what could it be? Now, obviously the three of us weren’t going to blurt out, ‘Hey, Houston, we’ve got something moving alongside […]
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Stephen Hawking is back on the ground after his zero-g flight on the vomit comet and by all reports he loved it.
“It was amazing … I could have gone on and on,” Professor Hawking, 65, said after riding for two hours on a modified jet that flew a rollercoaster trajectory to create the impression of […]
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Stephen Hawking is to hitch a ride on Zero Gravity Corps Boeing 727 on April 16th. The flight which will consist of about 15 parabolas creates a zero gravity environment for about 25 seconds each ascent/descent cycle and has been organized by game developer Richard Garriott, creator of the “Ultima” series.
The specially kitted out plane […]
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On August 16, 1960, Joseph Kittinger jumped his last Excelsior jump, doing so from an air-thin height of 102,800 feet (31,334 meters). From that nearly 20 miles altitude, his tumble toward terra firma took some 4 minutes and 36 seconds. Exceeding the speed of sound during the fall, Kittinger used a small stabilizing chute before […]
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China and Russia are planning a joint mission to Mars with a launch date in May 2009. The mission will use a Russian booster to send a Chinese satellite and a Russian probe dubbed “Phobos explorer” to the red planet. After a 10 month journey the plan is for the Chinese satellite to enter Martian […]
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Scientists believe they may have spotted caves in images taken by Nasa’s Odyssey spacecraft which is in orbit around the red planet. Seven potential caves have been identified on the side of the Arsia Mons volcano with entrances varying in size between 100m and 252m wide. In one of the images the floor of the […]
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The image of Io above was taken by the New Horizons probe as it recently sped through the Jupiter system on it’s way to Pluto. The image was taken with the spacecrafts Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) from a distance of 2.5 million kilometers. Clearly visible in the 11 o’clock position of the Jovian moon […]
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The biggest hurdle mankind faces as we get set for the next chapter is space exploration is the Human factor.
Whilst the technological challenges in getting us back to the Moon and then to Mars and beyond will no doubt be formidable, the biggest challenge will be how to keep astronauts both physically and mentally fit […]
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The destruction of a chinese satellite last month greatly contributed to the amount of crap space junk orbiting our planet. The satellite which was destroyed in a ballistic missile test by the Chinese (which pissed off the whole world) is now in millions of pieces with about 900 of the pieces large enough to be […]
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