50 years ago on July 20th, 1969, humans stepped foot on the surface of the moon for the very first time with the Apollo 11 mission. It was a remarkable achievement that gave the United States victory in the Space Race, and solidified NASA’s role as a leader in space exploration. The Apollo program was […] More
In the dark expanse of space, a ship orbited alone, just one of the two vessels that were meant to rendezvous and change cosmonauts. Vladimir Komarov, a good friend of Yuri Gagarin (the first man in space) had gone into the mission knowing his bleak chances. Inside a Soyuz capsule – the Soviet equivalent of […] More
You read the headline correctly: NASA is giving away an Apollo-era Saturn I rocket to anyone who wants it, provided they front the $250,000 cost to transport it. In other news: I am happy to announce that I am starting a GoFundMe campaign to move an Apollo-era Saturn I rocket into my backyard. According to […] More
50 years ago on July 20th, 1969, humans stepped foot on the surface of the moon for the very first time with the Apollo 11 mission. It was a remarkable achievement that gave the United States victory in the Space Race, and solidified NASA’s role as a leader in space exploration. The Apollo program was […] More
We are all familiar with Apollo 11 and the world’s first manned lunar mission back in 1969. It was a historic moment for the world and a victory for the United States, as the space race with Russia created a fervor of science-based competition that we haven’t seen since. A lot of us have seen […] More
Whether or not there is any evidence of extraterrestrial life in Area 51, the area of the Nevada desert that the Air Force has kept under tight wraps for a handful of decades now, has been the center of several pop culture projects. From The Transformers movie to the Simon Pegg/Nick Frost/Seth Rogen/Kristen Wiig comedy Paul, just what is […] More
In a report published earlier today, NASA said that the moon is shrinking, which is resulting in Moonquakes. NASA said that as the moon cooled over the last several hundred million years, it has shrunk about 50 meters in size. Much like the surface of a grape wrinkles as it becomes a raisin, the moon […] More
Earlier this week we were graced with the first-ever direct image of a black hole. More than 200 researchers contributed to the effort (however only 40 of whom were women). The black hole is at the center of Messier 87 galaxy, about 55 million light years away. It’s truly an incredible feat. And it’s also been truly […] More
Following the ridiculousness that was the first Falcon Heavy launch, where SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster into space (because: why not?), SpaceX has now successfully completed its first launch for a commercial customer using the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle. T-60 seconds → https://t.co/gtC39uBC7z pic.twitter.com/3eVqgEtxyR — SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 11, 2019 The world’s most powerful […] More
By now most of the world has seen the incredible photo revealed April 10th by the Event Horizon Telescope Project and the National Science Foundation. Though the scientific world bubbled with excitement over the first ever image of a black hole, no one could be as excited as the team who worked tirelessly to make […] More
Star Trek, Andromeda, and Dr. Who. These wildly successful shows have some intersecting storyboards. Black holes have been the linchpin for many plot lines in film and TV alike. Commonly referred to ‘quantum singularities’, they create the perfect drama-driven episode that we love. All the black holes you have seen up until now have been […] More
Today, NASA announced that its Mars Curiosity Rover captured not one, but two solar eclipses from the surface of Mars last month – one each for both of its moons. In order to capture the eclipses, the Curiosity Rover had to bring along special “eclipse glasses”, as NASA explains on the JPL website: When NASA’s […] More
