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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

itsfullofstars: NASA Just Found a Lost SpacecraftLost for 22...

NASA Just Found a Lost Spacecraft

Lost for 22 months, contact with the STEREO-B was re-established by NASA’s Deep Space Network.

Kinda sounds like a good scifi movie, doesn’t it?

That’s pretty cool.

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Friday, August 12, 2016

theverge:Hubble just sent back its largest photo ever. Go see...

cinemagorgeous: Gorgeously imaginative concept art by the...

cinemagorgeous:

Gorgeously imaginative concept art by the talented Ryan Gitter.

Stunning.

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Thursday, April 14, 2016

fuckyeahphysica: The intricacies involved in launching a...

Monday, April 4, 2016

Commercial Spaceflight - The New Right Stuff - Space Angels

Commercial Spaceflight - The New Right Stuff - Space Angels:

liftoffpodcast:

Nice piece about commercial flight from my STS-135 pal Sarah Cruddas.

This could be huge.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

itsfullofstars: NASA’s next-gen Z-2 spacesuitThe Z-2 has been...

itsfullofstars:

NASA’s next-gen Z-2 spacesuit

The Z-2 has been designed purely with one purpose in mind - to allow astronauts to explore a foreign planet. The suit won’t be worn during space walks or on board spacecraft, but will be used when humans reach Mars.

“The suit is designed for maximum astronaut productivity on a planetary surface – exploring, collecting samples, and maneuvering in and out of habitats and rovers,” NASA explained.

Seems like it could be more somehow… This doesn’t really look that different.

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Saturday, March 26, 2016

techcrunch: Who owns the stuff in space? If you find a...

Sunday, March 20, 2016

materialsscienceandengineering: Eternal 5D data storage could...

materialsscienceandengineering:

Eternal 5D data storage could record the history of humankind

Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.

Using nanostructured glass, scientists from the University’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have developed the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional (5D) digital data by femtosecond laser writing.

The storage allows unprecedented properties including 360 TB/disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1,000°C and virtually unlimited lifetime at room temperature (13.8 billion years at 190°C ) opening a new era of eternal data archiving. As a very stable and safe form of portable memory, the technology could be highly useful for organisations with big archives, such as national archives, museums and libraries, to preserve their information and records.

The technology was first experimentally demonstrated in 2013 when a 300 kb digital copy of a text file was successfully recorded in 5D.

Now, major documents from human history such as Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Newton’s Opticks, Magna Carta and Kings James Bible, have been saved as digital copies that could survive the human race. A copy of the UDHR encoded to 5D data storage was recently presented to UNESCO by the ORC at the International Year of Light (IYL) closing ceremony in Mexico.

Read more.

Record our history…

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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

starwars: Aside from the danger of being in a galactic...

starwars:

Aside from the danger of being in a galactic dogfight, this is a seriously crowded battlefield.

Way too crowded.

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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

theverge: NASA’S NEW SPACE TOURISM POSTERS ARE OUT OF THIS...

theverge:

NASA’S NEW SPACE TOURISM POSTERS ARE OUT OF THIS WORLD

Space tourism!

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Monday, March 7, 2016

Evaluating Our Importance In The Universe

Evaluating Our Importance In The Universe:

No, we really are totally irrelevant to the universe.

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Sunday, March 6, 2016

npr: consortianet: Liquid Ping-Pong in Space This is...

npr:

consortianet:

Liquid Ping-Pong in Space

This is seriously so mesmerizing. -Ariel

This is awesome and crazy.

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Thursday, March 3, 2016

casadelsoulman: Tilt-shift photo of the space shuttle...

casadelsoulman:

Tilt-shift photo of the space shuttle Endeavour by NASA

Woah. This is crazy cool.

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Sunday, February 21, 2016

npr: This week, NASA is set to reach a milestone on one of its...

npr:

This week, NASA is set to reach a milestone on one of its most ambitious projects. If all goes to plan, workers will finish assembling the huge mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope — an $8 billion successor to the famous Hubble telescope.

“So far, everything — knock on wood — is going quite well,” says Bill Ochs, the telescope’s project manager at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

The massive mirror is being built in a facility that’s essentially a giant, ultra-clean gymnasium. NPR can’t go inside for risk of contamination, but I meet crew chief Dave Simm at an observation deck where we can see the mirror below. Simm works for the contractor Harris Corp., and he’s normally in there assembling it. When he is, he has to wear a white suit that covers every inch of his body.

“The only thing exposed is your eyes,” he says. (Spacecraft assembly pro tip, he adds: To use your cellphone in the clean area, try a Bluetooth headset under your protective clothing.)

Massive Space Telescope Is Finally Coming Together

Photo: Chris Gunn/NASA

This is crazy. Clean room on steroids, for some giant mirrors that shine brighter than diamonds.

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Thursday, February 18, 2016

techcrunch: SpaceX released a video showing a successful hover...

techcrunch:

SpaceX released a video showing a successful hover test of their human-rated spacecraft, Crew Dragon. If all goes according to plan, in 2017, Crew Dragon will be placed on top of a Falcon 9 and send astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).

Check out the full video here.

We’re at a really exciting point in the private space race…

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