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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...
7 Jul 2019 1 minute read 1 comment Nik735
Original videos of the first ever extravehicular activity of astronauts on the moon will be sold at auction for millions of dollars. NASA's trainee technician accidentally bought them along with a lot of used films forty years ago and for a long t...
20 Jun 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano
NASA scientists have just published the latest and most accurate image of the planetoid Bennu. It has been explored since the end of last year by the OSIRIS-REx probe. Soon, her samples will be sent to the Earth for research purposes. The picture is...
19 Jun 2019 1 minute read 1 comment dachaoticmind
Scientist has discovered a mass five times the size of Hawaii buried deep within the Moons South Pole-Aitken basin, which, according to NASA, stretches across approximately one-fourth of the Moons 11,000 kilometers. That is huge, and if you would...
