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Winter Solstice – The Shortest day of the Year
[/caption] Depending on how the calendar falls, the December solstice occurs annually on a day between December 20 and 23.…
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NASA announces Feb. 7 launch for 1st SpaceX Docking to ISS
[/caption] Make or break time for NASA’s big bet on commercial space transportation is at last in view. NASA has…
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Revolutionary Air-Launched Commercial Rocket to Orbit Announced by Microsoft Billionaire Paul Allen
[/caption] A mega quartet of luminaries led by Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen and legendary aerospace designer Burt Rutan have…
Earth’s Magnetic Pole Reversal – Don’t “Flip Out”!
[/caption] Have you heard or read stories about how Earth will some day reverse its magnetic poles? If you have,…
Ancient Zircons Help Reveal Early Earth Atmosphere
[/caption] Roughly 2.4 billion years ago, Earth's atmosphere underwent a huge change known as the "Great Oxidation Event". This switch…
Satellite Captures Unusual “Cloud Streets”
[/caption] I love looking at unusual cloud formations, and these have to be some of the most intriguing. These long,…
A Night Flight Over the Mideast
The cities of the Middle East and southern Asia shine bright in the night beneath the International Space Station as…
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Phobos and Jupiter Conjunction in 3 D and Amazing Animation – Blastoff to Martian Moon near
http://youtu.be/u60IkqWF5D4 Video Caption: Phobos and Jupiter in Conjunction - taken from Mars orbit ! A movie of the 1 June…
Shenzhou-8 rolled out for Blastoff to China’s 1st Space Station on November 1
[/caption] China’s Shenzhou-8 capsule and the Long March booster rocket have been rolled out to the Gobi desert launch pad…
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Russia Fuels Phobos-Grunt and sets Mars Launch for November 9
[/caption] Russia’s Space Agency, Roscosmos, has set November 9 as the launch date for the Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars and…