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Galactic Journey
55 years ago: Science Fact and Fiction.
By Gideon Marcus, Janice L. Newman, et al. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
[February 22, 1969] Good and Bad Trips (March 1969 Fantasy and Science Fiction) by Gideon Marcus Davey Jones has company This week, the regional news has been filled with the death of a local hero. Aquanaut Berry L. Cannon, a resident of Sealab III off the coast of …
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Exploring the Universe with Andrew Fraknoi
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Enjoy the Coming Leap Day: Some Thoughts about the Calendar 2024 is a leap year, meaning we add a day at the end of February that is not usually there – February 29. This year it’s a Thursday, so most of us will be going …
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No Shortage of Dreams
The story of spaceflight told through missions and programs that did not happen - that is, the great majority of them.
By David S. F. Portree. More infoUpdated
Apollo-Soyuz II (1974) Image credit: NASA.The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) had its origins in talks aimed at developing a common U.S./Soviet docking system for space rescue. The concept of a common docking system was first put forward in …
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Drew Ex Machina | Posts
My website is dedicated to the presentation and discussion of my past and current professional work. My areas of interest include remote sensing, spaceflight, astronomy and astrobiology.
By Andrew LePage. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Accurate Characterization of 3D Winds Using Stereographic Observations from the Hurricane Hunter Satellites The teams at Tropical Weather Analytics (TWA) and Canada Weather Analytics (CWA), where this author is the Chief Scientist, had the honor of having our abstract about our Hurricane Hunter Satellite (HHSat) accepted for the …
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Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves
Seeking children's books of old from library/yard sales, used book stores, ebay, etc.
By Burgin Streetman. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Need a House? Call Ms. Mouse! Reprint News Coming back from the dead to let you all know that this book is being reprinted in the spring from NYR Children's Collection. Need a House? Call Ms. Mouse! by George Mendoza, illustrated by Doris …
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MOONBASE CENTRAL
the blog about vintage and modern space toys.
By Woodsy. More infoUpdated
PALMER AND PRECISION AFRICAN LION HEAD KIT BY PAUL ADAMS In the 1950s, two US kit companies came up with the idea of making Big Game hunting trophy kits. These usually comprised stuffed and mounted animal heads, on a simulated wooden plaque, that you could …
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Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera
Non-fiction children's space flight stuff 1945-1975.
By John Sisson. More infoUpdated
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952) Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some …
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Comets & Asteroids - Small Bodies of the Solar System
Latest news about Comets and Neo by Remanzacco Astronomical Observatory, Italy. Images and information about recent minor planets discoveries provided by our observer team.
By Ernesto Guido. 🇮🇹 More infoUpdated
Small Asteroid 2023 CX1 (NEOCP Sar2667) impacted Earth on February 13 On 2023 February 12.8 (20:18:07 UTC), K. Sarneczky found a small asteroid with the 0.60-m Schmidt + CCD of the Piszkéstető Observatory in Hungary (K88 MPC code) that was soon after put on the NEOCP …
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collectSPACE
Source for space history, space artifacts, and space memorabilia. Learn where astronauts will appear, browse collecting guides, and read original space history-related daily reports.
By Robert Pearlman. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Back on the moon A commercial, robotic spacecraft has become the first U.S. vehicle to land on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. "Odysseus," Intuitive Machines' first Nova-C lander, touched down near the lunar south pole on Thursday …
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Asymptotia
By Clifford V. Johnson. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
And so it begins… There’s not much in this post, but I wanted to mark a significant date. It is the first day of the rest of 2023, but in addition, it is the beginning of a new chapter …
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Astroblog
Obscured by Clouds. The rough and ready blog of a cloud benighted biologist and amateur astronomer.
By Ian Musgrave. 🇦🇺 More infoUpdated
This Full Moon, lets use a simple method to measure distance to the Moon I don’t know about you folks, but the feed in the social media formerly known as twitter is currently dominated by “cute poop” ads (who seem to have displaced the chemtrailers) and flat earthers. The …
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Antimatter
Life in a puzzling universe.
By Cormac O’Rafferty. 🇮🇪 More infoUpdated
4th International Conference on the History of Physics This week, the 4th international conference on the history of physics finally took place at Trinity College Dublin. The event, supported by the Institute of Physics and the European Physics Society, was the fourth in …
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Crowlspace
A Deeper Future View.
By Adam Crowl. More infoUpdated
A Work In Progress – Starship Earth Abstract Cixin Liu’s “Wandering Earth” is a more recent depiction of Earth being used as a Starship. Like Stanley Schmidt’s “Lifeboat Earth” (1976) it does seem like something of a rush job – the Sun …
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The Deptford Dame
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Launch of MoSaF map - 'a new way of thinking about Deptford' A group campaigning for a Museum of Slavery and Freedom to be established in Deptford has announced the launch of its latest initiative, the MoSaF Map, this Saturday. MoSaF London has issued an invitation to …
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Vertigo
Where literature and art intersect, with an emphasis on W.G. Sebald and literature with embedded photographs.
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“So much to regret”: Gabriel Josipovici’s “The Cemetery at Barnes” “Friends who had known him in the old days would comment on the uncanny resemblance between his two wives.” Cracking open Gabriel Josipovici’s novel The Cemetery in Barnes (Carcanet, 2018), we are immediately ushered into …