Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy
Life, The Universe and Everything
A mind-blowing four plus minutes!! At about :40 a series of circles puts us all into perspective as the longest zoom out ever shows our place in the universe.I feel pretty insignificant after all of that.
A quick zoom in at about 3:00 reverses the process, then examines the sub-atomic world -- but I'm not sure what the stuff at the end could be. Guesses or actual explanations are welcome.
Posted By: gdanea - Sat Dec 08, 2012 -
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Category: Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy
Jose Jimenez
Not a song, but still another entry in our fine old catalog of comedy that nowadays would have the PC-minded bearing down on you faster than a truck full of tortillas on Cinco de Mayo.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 30, 2012 -
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Category: Humor, Racism, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s
Cookie Monster Crater on Mercury
Sesame Street is invading the solar system!! NASA's Messenger mission scientists posted a questions on the Goddard Space Flight Center Flickr page asking, "Anyone else think this looks like the Cookie Monster?"
First Big Bird in politics and now the Cookie Monster on Mercury!!
Is Elmo headed for the red planet?
Posted By: gdanea - Sun Oct 14, 2012 -
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Category: Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy
March 15: Space Bat Memorial Day
On March 15, 2009, the Space Shuttle Discovery launched from Kennedy Space Center without any issues, except one. From Wikipedia:
Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 15, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy
Season’s Greetings!
I hope everyone has a Space Age Christmas!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 23, 2011 -
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Category: Holidays, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1960s
Sign Up for Space!
I thought this was a fitting item for the first day of the post-Space Shuttle era.
I wonder if the Hayden Planetarium kept these applications from 1952 on file down to the present?
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 22, 2011 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1950s
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