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Trump Pulls the Rug on Elon’s Pick for NASA Leadership

06/01/2025 PMSwithESP 0

Days before an expected Senate confirmation to the role, Trump has pulled the rug on Elon Musk’s pick to become the next administrator of NASA after being told the nominee had donated to prominent Democrats MORE

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SpaceX’s Starship, the core of Musk’s Mars program, spins out of control

05/28/2025 Rachel Kennedy 0

The Starship separated successfully from the booster which was meant to be reusable. However the booster exploded after separation; The Starship later began spiraling. Reuters Summary: Context is all. CBS reporting includes the booster issues. MORE

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NASA’s Apollo 13 Engineer Ed Smylie, who helped save the crew with duct tape, dies at 95

05/19/2025 Rachel Kennedy 0

From the Seattle Times, “Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo 13 crew MORE

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Scientists find ‘strongest evidence yet’ of life on distant planet

04/17/2025 Rachel Kennedy 0

BBC reports: A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms. This is the second, and more promising, time MORE

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Crew of NASA’s earthbound simulated Mars habitat emerge after a year

07/08/2024 Rachel Kennedy 0

We may finally get some data reporting the reasons we really don’t want to live on the Red Planet. Ever. The crew of a NASA mission to Mars emerged from their craft after a yearlong MORE

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Stuck in Space: NASA delays Astronauts return home on Boeing Starliner repeatedly. Why?

06/26/2024 Rachel Kennedy 0

The two NASA astronauts who flew Boeing’s Starliner capsule to the space station this month have been in orbit longer than anticipated — and will stay there for now. (NBC) Per NBC: NASA states the reasons MORE

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NASA Astronaut Bill Anders Dead at 90 in Plane Crash

06/09/2024 PMSwithESP 0

Major Bill Anders flew in space just once, and it was the first time humans ever left low Earth orbit. The “Genesis Flight” crew of Apollo 8 completed the first manned space mission to orbit MORE

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Live: Total Eclipse of the Sun

04/08/2024 Rachel Kennedy 0

OK, Tone says we can stay home from work…..you heard it here first….. Ah, the memories….. April 8, 2024, the day of the total solar eclipse. The next occurrence of this specific kind of eclipse MORE

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Eclipse 2024: Counties Declare State of Emergency in advance of April 8 Eclipse

03/28/2024 Rachel Kennedy 0

Officials in Kaufman County, Texas issued a disaster declaration Wednesday ahead of next month’s total solar eclipse, saying they expect the county’s population to double and for traffic to be a major issue. “This dramatic MORE

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Women’s Month Begins as Another Female Astronaut goes to the International Space Station

03/04/2024 Rachel Kennedy 0

As Women’s History Month continues, Astronaut Jeanette Epps made history yesterday as she launched into space with three crew members on a mission to the International Space Station. After two scrubbed launches scheduled this weekend, MORE

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‘The most hellish place in the universe. . . .” Astronomers discover the brightest object ever observed

02/21/2024 Rachel Kennedy 0

Astronomers discovered a quasar, which is the “brightest of its kind” and the “most luminous object ever observed,” using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), a statement said. From Newsweek: Astronomers have MORE

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From the “Keep Looking Up Files”: Nine Dazzling Celestial Events to Watch in 2024, Beginning Tonight

01/03/2024 Rachel Kennedy 0

The Quadrantids, which peak during early-January each year, are considered to be one of the best annual meteor showers. This year, they will peak tonight through tomorrow morning, though they are active from mid-December, 2023 MORE

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From the “Perspectives Files” : Geminid Meteor Shower Tonight; Best in 2023

12/13/2023 Rachel Kennedy 0

Things are looking up for what promises to be the best meteor shower of 2023. For those who are hoping to get a view of the peak of the Geminid meteor shower overnight tonight, it appears that MORE

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Once Upon an Asteroid. . . Samples from 4.5 Billion Year old Asteroid Bennu reveal water, carbon and sulfur – all essential to life

10/12/2023 Rachel Kennedy 0

The carbon-rich materials in the sample are intriguing because asteroids like Bennu might have seeded Earth with the building blocks for life. The NASA mission that collected the samples was named Osiris-Rex — a shortening of MORE

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The Ring of Fire: Saturday’s Annular Eclipse will show the Sun blocked by moon some parts of the US

10/10/2023 Rachel Kennedy 0

On Saturday, Oct. 14, the moon will partially block the sun, creating an annular solar eclipse and turning our star into a cosmic “ring of fire.”  The “ring of fire” phenomenon will be visible to MORE

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Cosmic Dawn: Scientists unravel the mystery of Universe’s earliest epoch, thanks to images from the James Webb Space Telescope

10/07/2023 Rachel Kennedy 0

. . . .the existence of what appear to be massive and mature galaxies during the universe’s infancy defied expectations – too big and too soon. So scientists were left to question the accepted ideas about the MORE

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More Science, Less Fiction: NASA Wants to Make UFO Studies a Real Science with s New Name

09/14/2023 Rachel Kennedy 0

The tracking of UFO or “unidentified flying objects,” have become the stuff of science fiction, pseudo science and stories of aliens from outer space. Per NPR: While unearthly-seeming sightings in the sky aren’t uncommon, the MORE

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Russia’s first lunar mission in 47 years smashes into the moon in failure

08/20/2023 Rachel Kennedy 0

According to Space.com, “The Luna-25 spacecraft was supposed to maneuver itself into its final pre-landing orbit around the moon  (Aug. 19), ahead of a touchdown attempt on Monday (Aug. 21) or thereabouts. But the probe encountered MORE

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Biden Reverses Trump, Keeps Space Command in Colorado

07/31/2023 Surley 0

“Locating Headquarters U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs ultimately ensures peak readiness in the space domain for our nation during a critical period,” Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement. “It will MORE

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Happy Birthday James Webb. In One Year it has taken us back in time 13.4 billion years…..

07/16/2023 Rachel Kennedy 0

“One of the great things about Webb is every time we see a new result we’re all just sitting around the monitors going ‘Wow.’ I mean, it’s really an amazing mission for me when I think about MORE

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Strongest Solar Storm in 6 Years Catches Earthlings By Surprise

03/25/2023 PMSwithESP 0

The most powerful solar storm in nearly six years slammed Earth on March 24, surprising NOAA’s National Space Weather Service with a magnitude not expected. U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, originally issued a MORE

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Space mining startups see a rich future on asteroids and the moon

01/08/2023 Rachel Kennedy 0

A cash flow cascading from the heavens is a provisionary but promising harvest from asteroid mining. It’s already a “claim jumping” enterprise with assertions that billions, trillions, even quadrillions of dollars are looming in deep MORE

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A piece of the wrecked 1986 Challenger space shuttle was found off Florida’s coast

11/11/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

A documentary crew searching the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida for a World War II-era wreckage uncovered a very different historical artifact.  While digging in the seabed, crew members from MORE

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California Man’s House, Goes Up in Flames After Meteorite Hits It

11/07/2022 Surley 0

A northern California man has claimed that his home was destroyed by a meteorite on Friday, after several witnesses reportedly saw a ball of light descending from the sky. “I heard a big bang. I started to MORE

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Webb’s Shows New Images Close to Home: Neptune’s Rings and a Bright Mars

09/22/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

From its perch one million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescopehas peered deep into our solar system to capture images of Neptune. These new views show seven of the distant planet’s 14 known moons, but MORE

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Free Chat Friday, Week 28

Friday rolls in with water this week, so much, too much, reminding me of the poetic ancient mariner — “Water, water, every where; And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, and not MORE

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