Blogs about Space

Astronauts on the first Artemis landing missions will be on foot, but later on could have their choice of vehicles to roam across the lunar terrain. Jeff Foust reports on the latest milestones in the …

In my last entry, I talked about how NASA was floating a weird proposal. In essence, the agency wanted to change the New Horizons mission from a Kuiper Belt explorer to doing solely heliophysics. This, …

The 18th-century English novel “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman” (better known by its nickname Tristram Shandy – first published in 1759) reached its complete form in 1767. It was released in 9 …

NGC 2903“A whosit in a whatsit?! Unk, did you break out yet another bottle o’ the Rebel Yell?!” Not at all, muchachos, not at all. Well, maybe I did, but that title up above is …

NASA has selected the first science experiments for the Artemis III Moon landing mission - and one of them will grow plants!

It was 1903 that the Wright brothers made the first successful self-propelled flight. Launching themselves to history, they set the foundations for transatlantic flights, supersonic flight and perhaps even the exploration of the Solar System. …

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