Apollo +40
If you haven't yet noticed, today we're celebrating the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, and the first humans to step foot on the moon, which happened at around 4:15 pm EST, July 20, 1969. And in perhaps...
View ArticleFly to the Moon with Google Earth
Google Moon Tour Jump back in time with the Apollo 11 guided tour in Google Earth's new moon feature, hosted by Andrew Chaikin and Buzz Aldrin. GoogleEarthlings can celebrate 40 years since the first...
View ArticleWatch the Apollo 11 Landing Live, Just as Cronkite Called It
Apollo 11 On TVKottke.orgGenius idea from Jason Kottke--he's synced up Walter Cronkite's live call of the moon landing on CBS to real time, forty years forward. And they're just about to land. Now you...
View ArticleFive Human Achievements That Could Top Walking on the Moon
Free Fusion Energy? The National Ignition Facility Target Room Forty years after Apollo 11, a look forward at the world-changing discoveries that could match--or even top--humankind's first steps on...
View ArticleCould an Asteroid Impact Knock the Moon into the Earth?
Collision Course It would take a moon-sized object to move the moon. NASA/JPL-Caltech"If an asteroid hits the moon, it will just get another crater," says Gareth Wynn-Williams, an astronomer at the...
View ArticleDid a Lunar Art Caper Put The First Museum on the Moon in 1969?
The Tiny Art Collection in Question Bell Labs engineers etched six works of art by 1960s artists onto tiny ceramic chips, one of which supposedly ended up on the Apollo 12 lunar lander and hence on the...
View ArticleEvidence Shows the Moon May Hold 100 Times More Water Than Previously Thought
The Moon May Be Wetter Than We Know A new study suggests the minimum water content of the moon should be 100 times higher than previous research shows. It's been a great day for interplanetary H2O....
View ArticleArchive Gallery: PopSci's Most Fantastic Space Colonies
May 1956An igloo-shaped lunar base, a train on the moon, a satellite housing 20,000 residents, and other places to live and play in space Let's face it, sometime within the next century or so,...
View ArticleAerospace Entrepreneur/Motelier Robert Bigelow Thinks the Chinese Will Take...
Claiming the Moon We were there first. NASARobert Bigelow is not a small name in the space world. His company Bigelow Aerospace is a pioneer of inflatable spacecraft, and the company has made waves...
View ArticleVideo: Astronauts Falling Down and Finding It Difficult to Get Up, on the Moon
Astronaut Fall Down Go BoomNASAThis is kind of a Friday video, in that it is silly and involves (read: consists entirely of) moments that could be soundtracked with a loud cartoony "BONK!", but this...
View ArticleRussian Space Chief: 'We're Talking About Establishing Permanent Bases' On...
Destination: the MoonBob Familiar via WikimediaYesterday, the heads of the space agencies for Europe, Canada, Russia, India, and Japan met in Washington D.C. (without NASA, which had all hands on deck...
View ArticleTonight, See the Last "Blue Moon" Till 2015
Blue MoonFlickr/FrozenInLightA "blue moon" refers to the second full moon in a single month, so, no, it's not actually blue, but it's still a cool event--it won't happen again until July 2015--and it's...
View ArticleVideo: A Timelapse View Of Earth From The ISS
ISS Footage TimelapseGiacomo Sardelli/NASAA super-epic holiday greeting from space. Happy holidays from the International Space Station! Film student Giacomo Sardelli created this timelapse video of...
View Article2013 Prediction: Asia Takes Two Routes To Space
Chang'e-2 China is going deep. via WikimediaChina and India have different ambitions in space, but missions from both countries will help us better understand the cosmos. Science and technology have...
View ArticleNeil Armstrong Planned 'Small Step For Man' Line Months Before The Moon Landing
Neil Armstrong During Apollo 11NASA/via WikimediaAnd that infamously missing "a" was supposed to be there. Neil Armstrong always maintained that he'd thought up possibly the most famous line in...
View ArticleKaguya Lunar Probe Sends Final HD Images Before Crash-Landing
Kaguya's Farewell Transmission (3) Before crashing to the surface last week, Japan's Kaguya probe sent back a series of seven high-resolution images just a few thousand feet above the lunar surface....
View Article2013 Prediction: Asia Takes Two Routes To Space
Chang'e-2 China is going deep. via WikimediaChina and India have different ambitions in space, but missions from both countries will help us better understand the cosmos. Science and technology have...
View ArticleNASA Sends Mona Lisa To The Moon Via Laser
A new way of communicating with far-away objects NASA has officially just sent the Mona Lisa to the moon using lasers. That is amazing.How they did that is slightly tricky, so here's some quick...
View ArticleNASA's Newest Robot Is A Fun-Sized, Moon-Mining Tank
RASSORNASARASSOR drops the scientific instruments of its cousins for 100 pounds of durability. Meet RASSOR, NASA's newest mini-space explorer. What you're looking at is a prototype. But one day, NASA...
View ArticleRussia Is Investing $50 Billion In Its (Very Ambitious) Space Program
Soyuz Rocket EnginesNASAPresident Vladimir Putin has announced a space initiative to put a person on Mars, build a moon base, and shoot down any foreign threats. Russian President Vladimir Putin...
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