Via screen-shot, NASA NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has successfully landed on Mars after a suspenseful descent and it has beamed back the first picture from the Martian surface. It's the dramatic culmination of a long journey that began on July 30, 2020, with Perseverance … [Read more...]
#OnThisDay71: Apollo 14 Heads Home from the Moon
Apollo 14, NASA, JSC, ASU, image reprocessing: Andy Saunders Fifty years ago, the crew of Apollo 14 left lunar orbit and headed home. They watched this Earthrise from their command module Kittyhawk. With Earth's sunlit crescent just peeking over the lunar horizon, the cratered … [Read more...]
#Update: Dragon SpaceX Docks with the International Space Station. Watch
SpaceX's Dragon with astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley just docked with the International Space Station. No astronauts have made this journey after launching from the United States since NASA's Space Shuttle Program retired in 2011. 19 hours in the spacecraft they … [Read more...]
As SpaceX & NASA Make an Historic Mission, Netflix Launches Its Satire “Space Force” with Steve Carell
SpaceX's Bob Hurley Today Elon Musk's SpaceX will attempt to launch two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station in a mission called Demo-2. It will mark the first time in history that a commercial aerospace company has carried humans into Earth's orbit. The … [Read more...]
#OnThisDay: 50 Years Ago, A Human Walks on the Moon
NASA via YouTube The Parental Units and I went to our friends, The Fitzgeralds, to watch. They were the owners of a large color television in a modern console, the biggest screen I had ever seen. I found every moment to be incomprehensibly captivating and of course, I was … [Read more...]
Trump Blasts NASA & Says the Moon is “Part of Mars”
Yes, kids. Something ELSE that our great leader knows that no one seems to; the moon is part of Mars. In a tweet on his own administration’s space policy, Trump said: “For all of the money we … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “The Stars Don’t Look Bigger, but They Do Look Brighter.” – Astronaut, Sally Ride
Sally Ride joined NASA in 1978, one of NASA's first six female astronauts, and began spaceflight training in 1978. In 1983, she became the first American woman in space, and as far as I know, the first LGBTQ person to orbit the planet. She was the third woman to go into space; of … [Read more...]
#OnThisDay1968: 50 Years Ago, William Anders Shoots “Earthrise”
On December 21, 1968, three humans in a rocket left our planet for a six-day, round-trip trip to the Moon. The NASA Apollo 8 mission had astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders flying hundreds of thousands of miles across space, becoming the first humans to see … [Read more...]
#Breaking: NASA Has Landed on Mars!
UPDDATE: 2:59 p.m. EST: After seven months of traveling through space, the NASA InSight mission has landed on Mars. A few minutes later, InSight sent the official "beep" to NASA to signal that it was alive and well, including a photo of the Martian surface where it … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “People Say a Fool and Their Money are Soon Parted. The Real Question That You Want to Ask Yourself is: ‘How Does a Fool and Money Get Together in the First Place?'” – Mae C. Jemison
Mae Carol Jemison is a physician, writer, dancer and actor. In 1987, she became the first African-American woman astronaut. On September 12, 1992, Jemison flew into space with six other astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, becoming the first black woman in … [Read more...]
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