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Posted by Orbiting miles above the Earth, NASA astronaut Kevin Ford celebrates our shared passion for exploration and sends his best wishes for Nat Geo’s 125th anniversary.
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Looks like hailing frequencies were opened this week between Captain James T. Kirk of Star Trek TV and movie franchise fame and the International Space Station orbiting Earth. William Shatner, the actor who played the captain of the starship Enterprise had a lively conversation today with astronaut Chris Hadfield, currently aboard the ISS. Shatner spoke by…
If you have ever thought it would be cool to watch the International Space Station in the sky, NASA is making it a lot easier to do just that. A new website sends alerts to skywatchers wanting to catch the space outpost flying over their backyard.
The Space Shuttle’s Last Night Launch
Posted by Ford Cochran on February 5, 2010 Colleague Susan Poulton traded D.C.’s blizzard of 2010 for a weekend in Florida, where she’s blogging the last planned night launch of the U.S. space shuttle. She’ll chronicle the full countdown on our Breaking Orbit blog. To kick off the series (and honor the space program), I’m reposting her first entry here on BlogWild… We’re…
Posted by By James Robertson It seems like something the crew of the International Space Station should have had by now–access to the World Wide Web. But now, after a software upgrade this week, the crew of the station can watch all the YouTube cat videos they want from miles above the Earth. The first thing astronaut…
