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3 Apr 2020 1 minute read 3 comments Luke86
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured Apollo 12,14 and 17 landing sites Yes, we've been to the Moon and there is no other way to disprove it. The last photos shot by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter are a final blow to conspiracy theorists: these pic...
17 Mar 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Luke86
It was shot in 1990 by Voyager 1 probe, leaving the Solar System Do you know how big is a single pixel? Well, now imagine to shot a photo in which your house is smaller than a pixel. You would feel very very little, wouldn't you? And what do you thin...
9 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Studies made by Curiosity rover between 2012 and 2017 revealed thiophenes A tireless worker: Curiosity, landed on Mars in 2012, is unstoppable. Its activity allows to discover something new everyday, week after week, year after year with one single p...
26 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
In 1995 the Galileo mission meet the biggest planet of the Solar System, Jupiter, to study it after Pioneer and Voyager probes in the ‘80s. At that time Galileo, among the various measurement it made, discovered that the atmosphere of Jupiter was ver...
25 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
“Ok, Houston we’ve had a problem here”. 13th April 1970. Jim Lovell (together with Jack Sweigert and Fred Haise) talks to Houston about a series of problems on the Odissey, the spacecraft taking him and his colleagues straight to the Moon. Few secon...
24 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Katherine Johnson passed away at the age of 101. She calculated, by hand, orbits and trajectories of multiple Apollo mission, including that of Apollo 11. It has been one of the first women working for NASA, because of her incredible talent in physic...
21 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Our trip about curiosity and oddities about Apollo mission on the Moon. Today it's the turn of the second mission, in November 1969, the apollo 12. The crew was composed by Alan Bean, Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon. Once down from the LEM, Alan Be...
15 Feb 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Luke86
Hi everyone, in the last post i spoke about "facts" that happened during Apollo mission on the Moon, in particular what Gene Cernan, the last man walking on the Moon, did. We can find these "facts" (curious actions, funny videos, experiments, funny...
28 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
The 28th January 1986 is a very bad day in space history, especially for USA. Just in this day, the mission STS-51-L aborted after only 73 seconds, because of the explosion of the Challenger Space Shuttle, that killed all the 7-members crew. A spil...
25 Sep 2019 1 minute read 0 comments michaeljn
SPACE FLIGHT LIVE Three space travelers, including NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori from the United Arab Emirates, are set to leave Earth for a nearly...
