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Apollo 11 Launch @ Kennedy Space Center – July 16, 1969 At 9:32 a.m. EDT, the swing arms move away and a plume of flame signals the liftoff of the Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle and astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex...

Say Hi To Pluto's Smallest Moons After nine years and a 3 billion mile journey, NASA’s New Horizons probe is finally getting close to everyone’s favorite ex-planet, Pluto. And in doing so, she’s also captured the first ever family portrait of Pluto and all its little moons. So far, we’ve...

This Animated Explanation Of The Fermi Paradox Is Fantastic The Great Silence is a vexing problem we all love to speculate and argue about, but it’s not the most intuitive concept. This wonderful animated video by Kurz Gesagt explains the problem that is the Fermi Paradox and why our apparent...

SpaceX Just Dropped These Amazing Retro Mars Travel Posters Everybody wants to go to Mars these days, not least of all Elon Musk, who might very well be hoping to retire there after he turns into a cyborg. But for those of you who haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet, SpaceX just dropped some...

Astronaut Story Musgrave is positioned to replace components at the end of Endeavour’s Remote Manipulator System (RMS) mechanical arm on STS-61 in December 1993. Dave Scott works with the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) on the slopes of Hadley Rille during Apollo 15. This iconic image, captured...

NASA's Space Launch System Booster Passes Major Ground Test The largest, most powerful rocket booster ever built successfully fired up for a major-milestone ground test in preparation for future missions to help propel NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft to deep space...

New Earth-Orbiting Microwave Gun is Making Killer Maps of Wind Dynamics On May 10th, tropical storm Ana—the first named storm of this year’s North Atlantic hurricane season—made landfall along the Carolina coast. NASA scientists took the opportunity to observe the storm’s wind dynamics with...

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An Inside Look at the Construction of NASA's Next Mission to Mars Preparations for NASA’s next mission to Mars are kicking into high gear. And the technology the space agency is building for the Martian lander slated to launch in 2016 is enough to make science fiction fans foam at the mouth...

Ride Along With Dawn Spacecraft As It Swoops Around Dwarf Planet Ceres A breathtaking new composite video tracks the journey of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft as it settles into an orbit some 2,730 miles (4,400 km) above the surface of Ceres. Dawn entered into its new orbit on June 3. The spacecraft...

Regular Old Sewing Thread Can Be Woven Into Strong Artificial Muscles Given Disney’s amusement parks are packed full of audio-animatronic characters, it only makes sense that the company’s research division would be hard at work finding ways to make them even more lifelike. Researchers may...

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" - The US Space program The US has a long and storied history in space, I'm starting a thread to document its past and chronicle its future. This thread will be a mixture of pictures, historical events, ongoing and future projects and...

B-2 Stealth Bombers Appear In Europe As Tensions Rise With Russia A pair of B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, callsign DEATH 11 and 12, have joined a trio of B-52s at Royal Air Force Base Fairford, a long-time forward staging base for USAF strategic assets in the UK. The presence of US nuclear...

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Stanford Built a New Kind of Computer That Uses Water Drops Dunking your laptop in a bucket of water while it’s running is just about the worst thing you can do to it. But researchers at Stanford University, led by assistant professor Manu Prakash, have developed a new type of computer...

50 Years Ago, Ed White Became The First American To Walk In Space On June 3rd, 1965, Edward White became the first American astronaut to walk in space. His mission commander, Jame McDivitt snapped this picture over the Pacific Ocean over the course of the Gemini 4 mission. He later described...

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At the DARPA Robotics Challenge, We Saw A Lot of Robots Fall Over Yesterday marked Day 1 of the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, in which elite robots from around the world faced off to compete for $3.5 million in prizes. We saw some of humanity’s finest bots drive vehicles, remove rubble...

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