Neil Armstrong, The First Man To Walk On The Moon, Has Died
From NBC’s Cosmic Log: Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died Saturday, weeks after heart surgery and days after his 82nd birthday. His family reported …
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NASA Was Having A Great Week Until Today
With the highly publicized Mars landing of the rover Curiosity now starting to produce some awesome pictures of the Martian landscape it looked like everything was going NASA’s way. …
America’s First Female Astronaut Sally Ride Attacked Posthumously For Not Being A Good Lesbian
In this case a “good lesbian” being an “out lesbian.” Virginia Hefferman at The Lookout notes the issue: Maybe the idea of gays in space is just so exciting …
NASA: Global Warming increases chances of space alien attacks (UPDATED)
How low has NASA sunk? Damned low: It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from …
The End of an Era
With this morning’s Shuttle landing, the era of NASA as we knew it officially draws to a close. Sadly, the past forty years have forced us to bear witness …
The Last Picture Of A Shuttle Takeoff You’ll Ever See
Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, marking the final launch of NASA’s space shuttle program. The shuttle, with a reduced crew of …
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Harrison Schmidt – Obama administration "may want BP to fail for their own ideological reasons"
In another brilliant "it's about damn time" exposition, Apollo 17 astronaut and former US Senator from New Mexico Harrison Schmidt unloads on the Obama Administration with respect to its …
Two incredible scientific discoveries
Yesterday NASA announced that last month's LCROSS probe collision with the Moon generated a debris cloud filled with tiny particles of ice. You may remember the LCROSS experiment as...
Space — The Final Frontier?
Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the end of the historic flight of Apollo 11, which was launched on July 16, 1969 and splashed down a thousand miles southwest...