Space Shuttle Discovery Photos: Final Flight to Washington, D.C.

Pics: Discovery Shuttle Goes to Washington The Space Shuttle Discovery flew its final flight on April 17, 2012. The Discovery shuttle piggybacked a 747 from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles International Airport,...

Jeff Bezos: 'We Found Apollo 11 Engines'

Apollo 11 Rocket Engines Found in the Ocean Bezos Expeditions, founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, announced that the F-1 engines that rocketed Apollo 11 into space have been found. The Apollo 11 mission put mankind...

Intelligent design notion sinks NASA employee

It takes all kinds. I doubt that the NASA specialist lost his job solely on his belief in intelligent design. I have heard astronauts on numerous occasions espouse their belief in the divine creator. That is their...

NASA Report: Greenhouse Gases, Not Sun, Driving Warming

http://www.livescience.com/18255-solar-cycle-climate-change-warming.html In spite of the recent, prolonged lull in the sun's activity, Earth absorbed more solar energy than escaped back into space, a NASA analysis of the Earth's recent energy budget indicates. This...

China Sending Men to the Moon to Build a Lunar iPad Factory

Beijing -- China has revealed the purpose of its manned missions to the moon. The Chinese want to construct their next electronics assembly plant there as the first step toward using the moon as a manufacturing...

The American Agenda

Why do we still have troops in South Korea? So the military there can have sex with Korean girls? i must admit i've seen some beautiful Korean girls when i lived there.. So i would understand the temptation if that's the real reason we're there.. The supposed reason is...

NASA Rover Takeoff: The Search For Life On Mars

NASA's next Mars mission is go and gone With a roar of flame, the rocket with NASA's latest and most advanced rover took off as it began its journey with a mission: to find evidence that life has or had existed on...

Mars rover Curiosity poised for Nasa's 'most ambitious' mission

The rover, part of the Mars Science Laboratory, will probe the Red Planet's secrets with a wide array of scientific instruments. A vehicle the size of a small 4x4,is about to embark on a one-way 350m-mile trip...

NASA launches latest Earth-observing satellite

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — After a years-long delay, an Earth-observing satellite blasted into space early Friday on a dual mission to improve weather forecasts and monitor climate change. A Delta 2...

We can see our origin

The way we were NASA telescopes are witnessing how our own solar system began, discovering others in the universe, interpreting from light data. " “Comets spotted in distant solar system LAUREL, Md., Oct. 19...

Moby Dick seen floating on back

The satellite landed like a machine gun and Moby was in the wrong spot at the wrong time. The splash came in the Pacific. " “NASA Says Satellite Debris Fell in Pacific By ANDY PASZTOR NASA said all debris...

No bumps on noggins

Happy campers I awoke with much relief this morning to learn that the satellite has returned to Earth as a charred ember and that it has missed Paula Smallwood on her way to work; it left no hole in Bob Johnson’s...

Falling in the night

Nobody knows where it will land as this satellite is an older model and lacks reentry steering capability. It is slowing and coming into the atmosphere. Chances are, we will be sleeping when…BOOM! It will only...

Satellite crash site, narrowing the probability

Tiburon Ferry Ron Husk is a successful attorney, living in the San Francisco Bay area. It is Friday afternoon and he is leaving his office early to catch the first Ferry to Tiburon. Ron completed a big deal this...

Space debris and the victim of circumstance

Friday morning, she awoke as usual to the last workday of the week. Her routine began on time and Paula Smallerton rushed through the morning drill to get to her office downtown that would require a stop for a cup...

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