If at all any intelligent extraterrestrials find the voyagers, what would they know about us? apparently quite a lot, including the following: Sounds , Images , don’t like the slide-show? view each image The earth is what we all have in common. —Wendell Barry While composing the mail, this song kept popping in my head, […]
Read More →On October 9th, NASA spacecraft will run into the moon, and on purpose. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and its rocket’s Centaur upper stage will impact the moon, with the goal of sending some of the (possibly present) ice above the lunar surface. Once out of the eternal shade of the moon’s […]
Read More →http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090927.html At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was farther out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured above, was floating free in space. McCandless and fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such […]
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