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Sunita Williams’s Guided Tour of the International Space Station

This is life in space with departing International Space Station Commander, Sunita Williams. A few hours after making this video, she returned to Earth, landing in Kazakhstan with two of her colleagues, one from Russia and one from Japan. __________ If … Continue reading

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Is the Privately Financed Mars Mission for 2022 a Colonizing Mission or a Suicide Mission?

Not to be impolite, but this video strikes me as flim-flam. Perhaps it is being used at fund-raisers to coax seed money from gullible wealthy donors. Watch the video and see if you agree with me. __________ Why do I … Continue reading

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Neil deGrassi Tyson Makes the Economic Case for Reviving the U.S. Space Program

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Ocean Fail vs. Space Fail: Is America the New China (Circa 1492)?

Speculating about counterfactuals is always dicey, but historians have long noted that, over the past 600 years, the course of human events might well have played out starkly different if China, in the 1400s, had not been so isolationist and uninterested in ocean … Continue reading

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Astronaut Gordon Cooper on UFOs

Astronaut Gordon Cooper, who died in 2004, spent much of his life convinced that extraterrestrial intelligences are visiting Earth and that the American government is covering up this fact. Here’s what Wikipedia says about Cooper’s UFO beliefs and experiences: Cooper claimed to have … Continue reading

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Mental Health Break

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“If she wins, I’m done.” Sarah Palin Makes Tina Fey Want to Flee the Earth

Tina Fey on Sarah Palin: If she wins, I’m done. I can’t do that for four years. And by ‘I’m done,’ I mean I’m leaving Earth.”

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On July 21, 1969, the Day after Astronauts Stepped onto the Moon, What Did the Front Page of the New York Times Look Like?

  I can’t help but hear, in the headline, an echo of the ancient Roman Imperium: We came, we saw, we conquered.

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