Category Archives: Space

All the Pieces Found

Posted on August 7, 2012 by dkohn96

NASA has now located all the various components discarded during the Curiosity landing. See picture below:

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My favorite Curiosity Image (So Far)

Posted on August 6, 2012 by dkohn96

This image, taken from orbit by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is of Curiosity parachuting down to the surface of mars. Here is a simulation of the various orbiters in relation to the landing Curiosity. As shown … Continue reading →

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First Pictures from Mars

Posted on August 6, 2012 by dkohn96

Last night Curiosity landed on mars. The landing went perfectly (even with parachutes, cranes and rockets). Within minutes it sent back two black and white images. The first picture to be received was one showing one of the wheels of … Continue reading →

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Curiosity’s Grand Entrance

Posted on August 6, 2012 by dkohn96

Actor William Shatner narrates this thrilling video about NASA’s Curiosity rover, from its entry and descent through the Martian atmosphere to its landing and exploration of the Red Planet in NASA’s hardest planetary science mission to date. If you are … Continue reading →

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New Sample Return Robot Challenge Detailed

Posted on June 7, 2011 by dkohn96

From The Space Review via ASEE First Bell (June 7, 2011) In an article for the Space Review (6/6), Ben Brockert of Armadillo Aerospace wrote about the new NASA-funded Centennial Challenge called the Sample Return Robot Challenge, asking participants to … Continue reading →

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Very Large Telescope HD Timelapse Footage

Posted on May 29, 2011 by dkohn96

From: PopSci [with thanks to SvperNova09 of MidsouthMakers for pointing it out on IRC] There’s very little we can write to preface the imagery below, so we’ll just set the scene and get out of the way. The video below … Continue reading →

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Virgin’s SpaceShipTwo Makes Its First ‘Feathering’ Flight

Posted on May 25, 2011 by dkohn96

From: PopSci May 5, 2011 Virgin Galactic just keeps on ticking off the milestones on its way to becoming the first commercial company to take tourists on high-altitude flights to suborbital space and return them safely through the atmosphere to … Continue reading →

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International Space Station Comes Together

Posted on February 13, 2011 by dkohn96

Original FLASH VERSION

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Red Rover – Google Lunar X Prize

Posted on September 12, 2010 by dkohn96

If you don’t know, Google has a contest call the Lunar X Prize which “is a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel 500 meters and transmit video, images and … Continue reading →

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Building Curiosity: Robotic Arm Attached

Posted on August 24, 2010 by dkohn96

The latest report from the clean room where Curiosity (Mars Science Laboratory) is being built. This week, the robotic arm was attached to the rover. Friday, August 20, 2010 2:00 AM

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