NASA

  • Cassini & Saturn

    I do consider myself to be a “word artist” but the images that Cassini send back to this little blue planet. the 3rd rock from the sun. have left me speechless. Although in the media it is called Cassini the actual name of the spacecraft is ,’Cassini-Huygens’, named after astronomers Giovanni Cassini and Christiaan Huygens. It was a collaboration between NASA,

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  • NASA’s connection to Nazis stems primarily from Operation Paperclip. This secret U.S. government program that recruited German scientists, including those who had worked for the Nazi regime during World War II. This program played a crucial role in shaping the early space and missile development of the United States, which would eventually lead to the

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  • The first animals to reach space were fruit flies that the United States launched aboard captured German rockets in 1947. However the first mammal in space was Albert II, a rhesus monkey launched by NASA who reached an altitude of 83 miles (134 km) on 14 June 1949. Albert was anesthetized during flight and implanted

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  • The Enterprise

    We all know the adventures of the Spacecraft that carries the name Enterprise. Jonathan Archer, may have been the 1st Captain of Earth’s first Warp 5 vessel, Enterprise. Of course there is the famous Captain Kirk. who commandeered the Enterprise NCC-1701. Of course there was (or rather will be, like the other aforementioned space crafts)

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  • Apollo 14 Moon landing

    It always amazes me that there are still people(or as I call them ,nutcases) who say that the moon landing was a hoax. Funny enough these people always refer to the Apollo 11 mission . The mission that brought Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the surface of the Moon. However they were not the

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  • Hubble Space Telescope Facts NASA named the world’s first space-based optical telescope after American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble (1889 — 1953). Dr. Hubble confirmed an “expanding” universe, which provided the foundation for the big-bang theory. Mission Launch: April 24, 1990, from space shuttle Discovery (STS-31) Deployment: April 25, 1990 First Image: May 20, 1990: Star

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  • Big Bird in space

    It was announced today that the man who had played Big Bird from, 1969 to 2018 ,Caroll Spinney, sadly passed away aged 85. However he had escaped death about 33 years earlier. When NASA first had started planning for  the Challenger mission, the agency had approached and  invited Spinney to wear the Big Bird suit

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  • The biggest event of November 22,1963 was the assassination of President J.F Kennedy. However there were a few other events that day which were overshadowed by this. One of these events had a direct link to the assassination of JFK. Relay 1 was the first satellite to send a  television signal from the United States

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  • One thing that has always baffled me was the blatant double standards applied at the end and the era just after WWII. On one hand you had scientists like Alan Turing, whose work on the enigma code shortened the war by 2 years, and potentially saved millions of lives, but because of his homosexuality was

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  • We all know the story “War of the Worlds” be it either the book, movies or the musical version. A tag line of the story is “The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, they say.” Turns out that we beat the Martians to it. On July 1976. only 7 years

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