ARTICLE – Several weeks ago I was listening to the Stationery Orbit Podcast (because I’m a journal, pen, and stationery fanatic) and they mentioned that you can send a self-addressed stamped postcard to Blue Origin and it will be added to the payload of a future space mission and afterward, it will be mailed back …
NEWS – Space. The final frontier. Those words were uttered at the beginning of every episode of the original Star Trek TV series. I’ve always wanted to see the Earth from space. As I have previously mentioned, my teachers told me I should be an astronaut since all I did was take up space in …
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NEWS – There are a lot of satellites circling this blue marble we call home. YOu may not realize that many of these tin cans floating over our heads are actually visible to the naked eye if you know where to look. If you want to see one of these satellites with your own set …
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NEWS – Are you tired of those “been there, done that” kind of vacations? I mean, beaches are great, but water and sand can only go so far. Skiing is fun, but after you’ve been to the mountains, it gets repetitive. You can only look at so many ancient ruins, right? What is a world …
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NEWS – A while back, I wrote about Amazon’s Project Kuiper – a plan to launch over 3,000 satellites into low Earth orbit to provide broadband access to underserved areas. SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space venture is preparing to launch the first 60 of nearly 12,000 Starlink satellites. The photo above shows the 60 satellites strategically …
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NEWS – April 11, 2019, I got to watch history – at least part of it, as SpaceX launched its second Falcon Heavy from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. I did this from my driveway – or more correctly, a friend’s driveway down the street, which is pretty darn cool. Disclaimer – most …
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ARTICLE – When I was a kid, I loved space. I couldn’t get enough of NASA and the Apollo program. I was nine years old when Apollo 11 launched, and like most of the country, I was glued to the TV, fascinated by America’s space program. In fact, they told me I should become …
NEWS – I just finished binge-watching the first season of MARS, a 6-episode docudrama streaming from NatGeo TV. If your eyes just glazed over when you read that MARS is a docudrama, please unglaze them right now because this series is really entertaining if you have any interest in sci-fi, space exploration, science, etc. The …
Back in the 1970s, NASA sent out two interstellar probes, the Voyagers 1 and 2. They were designed to travel through space, not directed at any particular star, with information about us should any intelligent life happen upon the probes. The information in the Voyager vessels was in the form of two golden records, which …
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Until humans evolve to have the ability to fly like Superman, we’ll continue to dream about flying like Superman. One way to fuel that dream is with this fun Jetpack Backpack from Suck UK.
I’m not really into astronomy, but I love marbles and this collection from WestEndCollectables has me searching for my credit card. The collection includes 11 marbles that represent the planets in our solar system.
Oh LEGO, you know the way to a geek’s heart is through their love of rockets and space. Just take a nice long look at this ultra cool model of the NASA Apollo Saturn V rocketship. Designed by Felix Stiessen and Valérie Roche of the LEGO Ideas team, this model is a 1:110 scale replica …
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You are getting ready to travel to the deepest parts of space to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. What is your ride of choice? Unfortunately not the Starship Enterprise; we have to wait a few 100 years or so before that bad boy is …
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The crew of the International Space Station returned home after being relieved earlier this week. The crew of Expedition 29, Commander Mike Fossum and Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei Volkov, returned to Kazakhstan at 9:26pm EST aboard their Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft. After 165 days on the International Space Station and 167 days in orbit, the …
On Sunday night at 11:14pm US EST, three astronauts left for a visit to the International Space Station. The latest trip to the International Space Station includes Anton Shkaplerov, Anatloy Ivanishin and Dan Burbank, Expedition 29 crew members relieving the current crew on November 21, 2011. According to NASA, the crew of the International …
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