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Obviously China Is Beaming The First Live Lecture From Space To Earth [VIDEO]
21 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is a first: Chinese astronauts delivering a live lecture from the Tiangong 1 space module. The lesson included demonstrations of weightlessness and “the properties of surface tension while in microgravity.” Students were also able to interact with the astronauts and ask questions.
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NASA’s Largest And Most Powerful Rocket Is On Track For A 2017 Test Flight
10 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is NASA’s largest and most powerful rocket to date. And the aim is for it to have its first test flight in 2017. Low-Earth orbit travel will be a thing of the past for NASA: they want the Space Launch System to take them to new heights.
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Basic Dinner Party Banter: Top 10 Space Discoveries You Need To Know About
04 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s a big world out there and there are discoveries being made every day. The Learning Mind website put together the top 10 most mind-blowing recent space discoveries.
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The Unmissable Gallery Of The Day – The History Of Space In Images [PICS]
03 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new exhibition, which opens on Friday June 7, will give its viewers an experience through space and time. Click through to see some of the images.
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Awesome Time Lapse Alert: The Mars Rover’s 9 Month Mission In 1 Minute [VIDEO]
28 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
NASA’s Curiosity Rover has been poodling around on the surface of Mars for over nine months now, poking in the dirt and sending back pictures of its shadow and/or penises that it drew in the sand. You can thank a humanoid, then, for recovering some of Curiosity’s dignity with this excellent time lapse
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Massive 2,7 Kilometre Wide Asteroid Will Slip Quietly By Earth On 31 May
27 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Asteroid 1998 EQ2 is 2,7 kilometers long and will make its closest pass to Earth soon. The asteroid is set to fly past Earth on 31 May 2013, in what will be the closest encounter for the asteroid to date.
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NASA Footage Shows Biggest Meteorite Impact On Moon, Ever Recorded [VIDEO]
20 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A meteorite collided with the surface of the Moon creating an explosion 10 times greater than anything ever seen before – it was the Moon’s biggest explosion to date. It was even visible from Earth with the naked eye.
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Today’s Viral Video: ISS Commander Chris Hadfield Covers David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” From Space [VIDEO]
13 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Canadian astronaut and former Commander of the ISS, Chris Hadfield treats us to an “out of this world” cover of David Bowie’s Space Oditty as his final goodbye.
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Historic Virgin Galactic SpaceShip2’s Supersonic Flight [VIDEO + GALLERY]
30 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
First flight of the SpaceShipTwo goes supersonic. Virgin Galactic’s rocket has taken flight over California with Richard Branson watching every move. Watch SpaceShipTwo’s first flight.
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Nets, Harpoons And Suicide Robots Could Be Used To Fetch Debris From Space
26 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Since man first penetrated Earth’s atmosphere, a slew of garbage has been piling up in Near Space. The majority of the junk up there is from space shuttles. Heiner Klinkrad, a European Space Agency (ESA) space expert estimates there to be about 27,000 objects in orbit, travelling 80 times faster than a passenger jet, and that number grows, daily.
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They’re Making A Mars Colony Reality Show – Apply Here [VIDEO]
23 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Anybody up for winning a trip to Mars? Dutch company, Mars One began looking for volunteer astronauts to fly to Mars on Monday. The departure date is set for the year 2022, with landing set to be in 2023. And they’re going to finance it with reality TV
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Argentina’s Sky Lit Up By Meteorite [VIDEO]
23 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a an event usually reserved for Russian YouTube, night turned to day in Santiago del Estero, Argentina on Saturday evening. The video shows footage taken at a concert when the sky suddenly illuminates, so much so that it looks like day for a split second.
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WATCH: How Astronauts Sleep In Space [VIDEO]
16 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We all love that feeling of getting into fluffy jammies and cuddling up, horizontally, into our feather down beds. But do astronauts have the same luxury? Think again!
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NASA’s Best Footage Of Earth From Space, So Far [VIDEO]
09 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s earth month everyone, and as a tribute to our pale blue dot, NASA has put together a highlights reel of shots of the earth from space captured over the course of 2012, so we can “understand and sustain our home planet”.
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“I Watched A Large Meteorite Burn Up Between Me And Australia” – Commander Hadfield Answers Excellent Questions From Space
14 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Canadian Astronaut, Commander Chris Hadfield has risen to Twitter fame over the course of the last few months by tweeting beautiful pictures of earth from the point of view of the International Space Station, currently orbiting around the planet at a sedate pace of 27 600km per hour. Consider this one, for example. The Isle […]
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Why Exactly Are We Spending R1,9 Billion On Telescopes?
28 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A staggering R1,9 billion has been allocated over three years for the The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and MeerKAT radio telescope projects. That is a lot of money on a project that South Africans don’t understand. According to the Square Kilometre Array website, the SKA is not the average telescope system. Rather than filtering light waves […]
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Calling All Couples: Apply For The Mission To Mars Today [VIDEO]
28 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Unites States millionaire, Dennis Tito is looking for a couple to send on a round trip to Mars in 2018. Tito reportedly paid £13 million in 2001 for a ticket to become the first private space tourist. The round trip to Mars will reportedly take 501 days, and project leaders are looking for a couple who have been […]
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Asteroid Set To Pass Earth This Afternoon
15 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Asteroid 2012 D14 is set to bypass earth this afternoon. Scientists estimate the asteroid to be half the size of a football field and could experience “violent tremours” due to earth’s gravitational pull. There is even the possibility of the asteroid interrupting telecommunications when it passes. The asteroid will pass 27 680 km away from […]
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Secret Private Moon Mission?
04 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Going to space isn’t such a big deal these days. Basically, you just need enough money and you can go. But if you have enough money, you might as well go on your own, or with some mates, right?
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NASA Tests First Nuclear Engine For Deep-Space Exploration Since 1965 [VIDEO]
28 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For the first time in nearly 50 years, NASA has used a small prototype of a nuclear-reactor engine design to test whether this could one day power deep-space exploration probes.
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These 100 Images Were Chosen To Represent All Of Humanity And Its History [PICS]
31 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
An ambitious project, dreamed up by a mixed team of scientists and artists, will see a selection of 100 images sent off into orbit as an eternal archive representing humanity and its achievements throughout history.
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Awesome Nine-Billion-Pixel Photo Of The Milky Way
25 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is awesome: a nine-gigapixel photo of the Milky Way in all its glory and splendor. Click for the link of the full-size image on which you can zoom in, scroll around and search for the universes secrets.
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Space Station Time-Lapse Lets You Fly Through Time And Space [VIDEO]
18 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Photographer Christoph Malin from Austria created this amazing film by stacking image sequences taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. It shows beautiful star trails and city lights streaking over the Earth’s surface as seen from space.
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Female Astronaut Completes First Triathlon In Space
19 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
That’s not a misprint folks, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams recently ran, swam and cycled in space the same distance as her earthbound counterparts would have done in the Nautica Malibu Triahtlon, which was held in Southern California.
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Radiation From Half A Million Mile ‘Solar Whip’ Hits Earth Today [VIDEO]
04 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This massive solar whip or filament is 800 000 kilometers long. That’s 20 times the circumference of the earth. Makes you feel small, doesn’t it. The gigantic solar filament collapse has been caught on a NASA observatory camera.
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Some Of The Breathtaking Images From The 2012 Astronomy Photographer Of The Year Competition [PICS]
24 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Space, the final frontier, and mankind’s constant fascination. These mesmerising images, from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year Competition, capture the night sky in ways that the naked eye never could and will leave you staring at the night sky wishing for an alien abduction.
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Awesome Interactive 360° Panorama From The Surface Of Mars
14 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Unless you’re currently in some kind of deep space training program, or you have some diabolical plan that no one knows about, the chances are pretty slim that you’ll ever actually get to set foot on Mars. Thankfully, we’ve got the next best thing for you, a fully interactive 360° panorama from the surface of the Red Planet. Enjoy.
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Nasa Celebrates Mars Rover Landing [VIDEO]
06 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Curiosity has landed. Nasa Administrator Charles Bolden: “Today, the wheels of Curiosity have begun to blaze the trail for human footprints on Mars.”
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China’s First Female Astronaut Does Tai Chi In Space [VIDEO]
29 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Liu Yang, China’s first-ever female astronaut, had a night shift on Shenzhou 9 a couple of days ago – which is apparently sort of dull in space too, because she entertained herself by going through some Tai Chi exercises. In space. And since the spacecraft returned to earth today, we get to see what that looks like.
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NASA Planning Manned Asteroid Mission
16 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
NASA will start training a team astronauts to land on an asteroid in the next month, in preparation for a mission that will take humans farther from Earth than ever before. They’ll be collecting mineral samples and determining how to destroy an asteroid in the event that it might collide with the Earth. Seriously.
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