Category Archives: Space News

GRAIL Crashes today!

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

From: Discovery News A pair of robotic space probes circling the moon to reveal what is inside will make suicidal plunges to the lunar surface next week, a planned — albeit dramatic — finale to a mission that is giving … Continue reading →

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BOGO Bosons?

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

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First found on:  Facebook Could the Large Hadron Collider team have discovered TWO Higgs Bosons? The original data was released in July, and it showed that the Higgs Boson seems to decay into two photons slightly more often than predicted. … Continue reading →

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Watching Our Neighbors…

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

From:  AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The North American Aerospace Defense Command says North Korea appears to have launched “an object” into Earth orbit, but neither the missile used nor debris from the launch are a threat to North America. NORAD … Continue reading →

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DIY Health Care via Tricorders

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

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Have you heard?  We may be close to having ‘Tricorders!’ I first caught wind of it when my friend, Marc Millis, posted some info to Facebook. “The device you’re looking at is called the Scanadu SCOUT and, basically, it’s a … Continue reading →

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Pray for the Emerging Spacer Industry

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

From:  AmericaSpace The next launch of one of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft atop one of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets is now slated to occur no earlier than March of next year. The second commercial flight of Space Exploration Technologies’ (SpaceX) … Continue reading →

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Watch the Weather – the Space Weather

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

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We briefly mentioned space weather in the post Discover a Comet yet we must stress the importance of being aware of our environment surrounding our celestial neighborhood. The pertinence of this was demonstrated recently by our nearest star, the Sun. … Continue reading →

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News Release From NASA

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

Received email… JPL/NASA News Media advisory: 2012-357 Nov. 13, 2012 NASA Hosts Nov. 15 Telecon About Mars Rover Progress The full version of this story with accompanying images is at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-357&cid=release_2012-357 PASADENA, Calif. — NASA will host a media teleconference … Continue reading →

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SPACEX TESTS GRASSHOPPER ROCKET IN TWO-STORY HOP

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

Received by email this morning… SPACEX TESTS GRASSHOPPER ROCKET IN TWO-STORY HOP On November 1, 2012, SpaceX’s Grasshopper – a 10-story vertical takeoff and landing (VTVL) vehicle — lifted nearly two stories in an 8-second duration test hop. The rocket … Continue reading →

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Spacer Paper

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

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Lunar Enterprise Daily “Tomorrow’s News Today” is a recent find and an example of a genre of online newspapers focused on space news. This one happens to be spawned out of Space Calendar. There are some others which I think … Continue reading →

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One Fish, Two Fish…

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

From Air&Space Thirty-five new occupants arrived at the International Space Station in late October. Three were astronauts, the rest were fish. “This is the first experiment in the world to take care of animals for such a long time in … Continue reading →

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