The Latest Pictures Of Mars Look Exactly Like Something From Earth
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Dina SpectorThe latest images to be sent back from the Mars rover Curiosity were released by NASA mere hours ago.
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A Congressional Hearing Was Called Because An Astronaut Snuck A Corned Beef Sandwich Into Space
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Jennifer WelshWhen you gotta eat, you gotta eat I guess. Even if you are an astronaut.
Now on Kickstarter: The First Steps Toward a Lunar Space Elevator
• http://www.popsci.com, By Colin LecherThere's only one it's-the-future-why-don't-we-have-x trope that rivals the flying car, and that's the space elevator. (First proposed in 1895, it might even predate it.) The idea of a giant tower that can carry us from Earth to outer space is legend,
Neil Armstrong's 'One Small Step' That Changed The World
• http://www.space.com, NASAWhen Apollo 11 touched down on the Lunar surface the whole world stopped.
Obama orders flags to half mast for Neil Armstrong
• The RawStory.comUS President Barack Obama Monday ordered that all official US flags be lowered to half mast to mark the funeral of Neil Armstrong, the astronaut who planted the Stars and Stripes on the Moon.
Interactive Panorama Lets You Stand on the Moon With Neil Armstrong
• Adam Mann via WIRED.comThough 12 men have walked on the moon, only one could be the first. When Neil Armstrong, who died Aug. 25, touched down in 1969 on the lunar surface, he and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin made history and photographed their landing site in detail.
Neil Armstrong in the Pages of PopSci: 1958, 1969 and 1989
• Rose Pastore via PopSci.comOur coverage of the first man on the moon
NASA's Next Nanosatellites Will Carry HTC Smartphones
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.com“The smartphone in your pocket has more computing power than the spacecraft that took the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon,” says anyone trying to impress anyone else with the massive scaling of computing power over the last few decades.
Now on Kickstarter: The First Steps Toward a Lunar Space Elevator
• Colin Lecher via PopSci.comThere's only one it's-the-future-why-don't-we-have-x trope that rivals the flying car, and that's the space elevator. (First proposed in 1895, it might even predate it.) The idea of a giant tower that can carry us from Earth to outer space is legend
NASA's Next Nanosatellites Will Carry HTC Smartphones
• http://www.popsci.com, By Clay DillowNexus S, phoning home
Space Elevator Project Shoots for the Moon
• SpaceA space elevator capable of shuttling robots or humans from the Earth to space remains decades away. But a company headed by a former NASA researcher says it can build a space elevator on the moon using today's technology.
Remembering Neil Armstrong, the Stuff of Legends
• Brian McLaughlin via WIRED.comWe at GeekDad are sorry to report on the passing of legendary Astronaut Neil Armstrong at the age of 82. While he was best known for being the first human to set foot on the Moon during Apollo 11, his career is the stuff of legends.
Farewell Neil Armstrong, the Ultimate Test Pilot
• Jason Paur via WIRED.comNeil Armstrong — who has died at the age of 82 — was best known as the commander of Apollo 11, but his career at NASA began nearly a decade earlier as a research test pilot.
Neil Armstrong had little confidence in privatized space travel
• The RawStory.comMore than 40 years after Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, humans continue to push the frontiers of space exploration but missions are being tempered by costs, a trend that concerned the astronaut.
Why Is It So Hard to Land On Mars?
• http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca BoyleAs Mars rover Curiosity approaches its terrifying landing, we have to face the fact that ‘Mars wins most of the time’
Mars Rover Curiosity's Tracks Are More Than Just Skid Marks in the Martian Dirt
• http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca BoyleThe Mars rover Curiosity’s first roll was more than a cause for celebration — it will help pinpoint where the rover set down, and emblazon the name of its maker into the Martian soil. Curiosity’s wheels have holes arranged in the Morse code pattern f
Farewell Neil Armstrong, the Ultimate Test Pilot
• http://www.wired.com, By Jason PaurNeil Armstrong — who has died at the age of 82 — was best known as the commander of Apollo 11, but his career at NASA began nearly a decade earlier as a research test pilot.
The Curiosity rover: Worth the cost?
• Terrence AymMany of the critics then raised issues of cost (Apollo's price tag was about $20 billion), the danger of risking human life in the unforgiving environment beyond Earth, and the ultimate return on investment. They argued that robotic space probes cou
Who knew? Curiosity photos show Mars teeming with UFOs
• http://www.msnbc.msn.com, By Natalie WolchoverFrom flying saucers to fossilized human fingers, people takes some leaps of logic
Neil Armstrong, The 1st Man On The Moon, Has Died
• http://www.businessinsider.com, APThe modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles away has died. He was 82.
Mars Rover Curiosity Successfully Makes Its First Test-Drive
• http://www.popsci.com, By Clay DillowDestination: 10 feet over yonder
Mars rover Curiosity gears up for Wednesday test drive
• http://www.reuters.com, By Irene KlotzNASA's Mars rover Curiosity, dispatched to study if the Red Planet could have hosted life, will take its first test drive on Wednesday.
A Robot Drill For Mars Will Be NASA's Next Interplanetary Mission
• http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca BoyleNASA’s next interplanetary mission won’t be a space boat or a comet-hopper, but another mission to Mars, this time with a stationary probe to drill into the planet.
UCLA Scientist Discovers Plate Tectonics on Mars?
• arcleinMars is at a primitive stage of plate tectonics. It gives us a glimpse of how the early Earth may have looked and may help us understand how plate tectonics began on Earth," said An Yin, a UCLA professor of Earth and space sciencesand the sole autho
NASA to Unveil New Planetary Mission Today
• http://www.space.com, StaffNASA will announce a new planetary mission today (Aug. 20) as part of its Discovery Program to explore the solar system on a budget.
So You’re Going to Mine Asteroids? Oh, Really.
• SlateOur telescopes are cubes half-a-meter on a side and will cost around $1 million each. When they are developed to a high level of performance, we want to print them en masse on an assembly line. They will have mind-blowing imaging capability.
Curiosity Rover Fires First Laser Beam at Martian Rock
• http://www.wired.com, By Betsy MasonA small, flat rock known as Coronation suffered the wrath of Curiosity’s laser when the Mars rover finally fired up its ChemCam instrument and delivered 30 pulses of energy at the rock over a 10-second period.
Video: Fly Through A Billion Light Years of the Universe, Past Galaxy Clusters and Dark Matter
• http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca BoyleA massive cosmic cataloguing effort released a new crop of star and galaxy data last week, noting the locations and brightnesses of hundreds of thousands of objects. Now you can fly through some of them in this new video -- click past the jump for a
Curiosity Rover's Latest Images Show Sandy Dunes And Hills On Mars
• Jennifer Welsh and Dina SpectorA week after NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory landed the Curiosity rover on Mars we've already seen some amazing images.
NASA Pilots Capture Perseid Meteor Dust at 65,000 Feet
• Jason Paur via WIRED.comMany astronomy fans are focused on the Perseid meteor showers this week and pilots at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center are no different.
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