Category Archives: Space

Clear skies on Mars – NASA rover captures one of the sharpest panoramas of the Red Planet ever taken | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/nasa-perseverance-rover-falbreen-mosaic

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On a Saturday afternoon in May 2026, a rock about three feet across hit the atmosphere over New England at 75,000 mph and broke apart with the energy of roughly 300 tons of TNT, and the boom carried from Delaware to Montreal, farther than any fragment ever fell

https://spacedaily.com/sd-on-a-saturday-afternoon-in-may-2026-a-rock-about-three-feet-across-hit-the-atmosphere-over-new-england-at-75000-mph-and-broke-apart-with-the-energy-of-roughly-300-tons-of-tnt-and-the-boom-carrie/

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In 1965, a 30-year-old cosmonaut named Alexei Leonov became the first human to walk in space — and somewhere in the middle of the live broadcast, while the world was watching the Soviet Union’s greatest propaganda triumph, mission control quietly cut the feed, for reasons that wouldn’t be publicly known for almost thirty years

https://spacedaily.com/d-in-1965-a-30-year-old-cosmonaut-named-alexei-leonov-became-the-first-human-to-walk-in-space-and-somewhere-in-the-middle-of-the-live-broadcast-while-the-world-was-watching-the-soviet-union/

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Satellites in orbit

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/192bSxBTzi/

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Wernher Von Braun

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Scott Kelly spent a year in orbit while his identical twin brother stayed on Earth, and when he came home NASA discovered his gene expression had changed in ways that didn’t fully reverse

https://spacedaily.com/j-scott-kelly-spent-a-year-in-orbit-while-his-identical-twin-brother-stayed-on-earth-and-when-he-came-home-nasa-discovered-his-dna-had-changed-in-ways-that-didnt-fully-reverse/

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Allan J. McDonald – Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_J._McDonald

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Japan’s Asteroid Sample Contains All Five Genetic “Letters” Of DNA And RNA, Supporting Idea That Life’s Ingredients Came From Space

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/61776/20260507/japans-asteroid-sample-contains-all-five-genetic-letters-dna-rna-supporting-idea-that-lifes.htm

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ARTEMIS II PHOTO TIMELINE

https://artemistimeline.com/?fbclid=Iwb21leARhZfRjbGNrBGFl6WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHuDM6j_HResh1sQv2hfOxaPw80CtEkoDdu6sV0DqsNz6pqWToxRNPKO4IVuj_aem_-uzbxR6Qf9aiPEEme84fEg#jeremy-hansen-suited-up-and-ready

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Behind the Scenes: Apollo 13 (Howard, 1995) with Tom Hanks and Bill Paxton

Probably the best behind the scenes for both the movie and the actual missions that I have seen!

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