Two MIT Students Take Pictures From Space On a $150 Budget Posted: 6 months ago by cb__
Perhaps more significantly, they managed to accomplish this feat using components available off-the-shelf to the average layperson.
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SPACE MONKEY PICTURES: 50-Year Anniversary Posted: 10 months ago by bornbad
A squirrel monkey named Baker peers out from a 1950s NASA biocapsule as she's readied for her first space mission. Baker and a rhesus monkey named Able launched aboard a Jupiter AM-18 rocket on May 28, 1959—50 years ago this week.
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Space Telescope Warms Up, Makes Pretty Pictures Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has officially started its "Warm Mission" after taking its first shots of the cosmos since it ran out of coolant in May.
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Amazing NASA pictures Posted: 3 years ago by misswinkle
"A friend's granddaughter who works for NASA sent us these pictures - I am assuming the last picture is Hurricane Dean - I am going to drop her a note to make sure. Pictures from the past mission."
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The 60's - The beginning of mankind's journeys into space Posted: 3 years ago by suebe
On April 12, 1961, the Soviets launched a 27-year-old fighter pilot named Yuri Gagarin on the world's first piloted space mission.
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NASA finds tiny hole in Atlantis caused by space debris Posted: 3 years ago by Fanatic
NASA discovered that space shuttle Atlantis has been holed by a tiny piece of space debris. The 1/10-inch hole represents the second largest debris damage event ever identified. Fortunately, it missed everything that was important to the mission. Space debris is an increasingly challenging problem.
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Teens Capture Images of Space With £56 Camera and Balloon Posted: 1 year ago by Doggylives
Teenagers armed with only a £56 camera and latex balloon have managed to take stunning pictures of space from 20-miles above Earth.
Team leader Gerard Marull, 18, said: "We were overwhelmed at our results, especially the photographs, to send our handmade craft to the edge of space is incredible."
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OSU students build and launch a radiation sensor into space Posted: 2 years ago by Dork
Students from OSU's Radiation Physics Laboratory built and successfully launched a cosmic radiation detector this summer that, carried by a helium-filled balloon, reached 104,000 feet in altitude. The detector recorded radiation levels at the varying altitudes -- information that will be used by NASA to develop instrumentation for space flight.
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Space Curry - Now Safe For Sealed Space Suit Wearers Posted: 12 months ago by pocksucket
The Indian space programme hit a minor snag when it came to the menu. Many traditional dishes have side effects that you don't necessarily want in a confined space with limited breathable air on board. The Defence Food Research Laboratory have stepped up to help create a more pleasant atmosphere.
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Space telescope unveils hidden cosmic giant Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Astronomers from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research have discovered a new cluster of galaxies, hidden behind a previously identified cluster of galaxies. The recently exposed cosmic giant is apparently just as bright as the first group, but is six times further away. The astronomers made the discovery as part of an international team using the space telescope XMM-Newton.
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Balloon in space pictures Posted: 3 years ago by misswinkle
Behold the view from 117,597 feet, taken on August 11, 2007 by a camera hanging from a helium balloon launched by a group of guys in Alberta, Canada.
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Big Space Thing Looks Like a Moth Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A moth-like structure with a 22-billion-mile wingspan is hovering out in space. This giant is actually a massive cloud of dust surrounding a nearby, young star imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope that has shown astronomers that these dust disks can take on unexpectedly unusual shapes.
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Salmonella in Space Get Even Nastier Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists sent Salmonella bacteria to the International Space Station aboard two space shuttle missions in September 2006 and March 2008. The researchers found that when the bacteria were cultured in the microgravity environment of orbit, they became more virulent than those on Earth. The findings showed that the conditions in which the bacteria grows affect how dangerous it will become.
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Costa Rica Creates a Trash Collecting Space Rocket, Will Offer Rides to Mars Posted: 4 months ago by analumass
Former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz has developed a plasma rocket which could cut the cost of space travel by more than half, transforming the aerospace business and clearing the way to exploration for more countries, such as his native Costa Rica. For now, Franklin plans to use the rocket, called the VASIMR, as a a mail-carrier for outer space, a garbage truck for orbital debris and, the ultimate goal, a shuttle to Mars.
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Space Elevator and the Controversial ‘Wobble’ Problem Posted: 2 years ago by jLoSsDh
The idea behind a space elevator is simple. Deploy a cable stretching from the ground near Earth’s equator far enough into space, and centrifugal forces due to Earth’s spin will keep the cable taut.
*fixed
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Hubble: From cosmic joke to cherished eye in space Posted: 11 months ago by kakana
After its launch into space in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was stuck with blurry vision because its mirror wasn't quite right. It was the butt of jokes by late night comics; an editorial cartoon said its designer was Mr. Magoo, a nearsighted cartoon character. It seemed like a massively overbudget screw-up.
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Far-Out Photo: Sunrise in Space Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
A new picture of a sunrise from space was taken with a handheld camera by astronauts Friday on the day the Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the International Space Station during shuttle mission STS-127.
Earth's atmosphere appears as a thin crescent shape ranging from white to blue to purple, while the planet in the foreground is a black as the void beyond.
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Space: The Final Frontier of Profit? Posted: 1 month ago by NoPantsMan
Everything we hold of value—metals, minerals, energy and real estate—are in near-infinite quantities in space. As space transportation and operations become more affordable, what was once seen as a wasteland will become the next gold rush. Capitalism may be able to do more for space exploration than governments ever could.
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Geomorphology From Space Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Geomorphology from Space is an out of print 1986 NASA publication edited by Nicholas M. Short, Sr. and Robert W. Blair, Jr. designed for use by the remote sensing science and educational communities to study landforms and landscapes. It has a gallery of space images consisting of 237 plates, each showing a different geographic region where a particular landform theme is exemplified.
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Bugs in Space: Can They Survive? Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Catching a free ride to Mars takes more than sticking out a thumb, but some hardy Earth bacteria could survive as hitchhikers clinging to the outside of spacecraft, studies have shown. Now a set of experiments going up with space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station will test how exposure to the harshness of space might change bacteria during a simulated Mars mission.
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The Future of Space Exploration Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
Oct 4th will be Sputnik's 50th anniversary. Although it had its scary connotations, the dawn of the Space Age was also a hopeful event. Visionaries celebrated humanity’s long-awaited climb out of its cradle, and pragmatists soon savored the benefits of communications and weather satellites.
The evolution of the space program continues to be dramatic. In a decade or so, it will be hardly recognizable.
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