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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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Night Lights?

From:  Earth Observatory (check out the pictures there!) Night lights can reveal a lot about the distribution of people on the landscape, or “human geography.” In this astronaut photograph from the International Space Station (ISS), the lights of Qatar show … Continue reading

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Read to Get Ready!

From Space Travel… For Clarkson University Professor Pier Marzocca and a group of like-minded colleagues across the nation, space isn’t the “final” frontier, it’s the inevitable one. Toward that goal, they’ve co-written a pragmatic plan to help transform an attainable … Continue reading

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If You Are In…

…London, England You might like to attend this lecture by Stephen Slater and John Zarnecki.  From the British Interplanetary Society site… The scientific and technical achievements of the Cassini-Huygens mission are well known within the worldwide scientific and space communities … Continue reading

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Spotting Tool

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You know about Heaven’s Above from before.  I just found a site that notifies you when the ISS – International Space Station is overhead. It’s pretty easy to sign up.  You do need to confirm. It lasts a year and … Continue reading

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If You Are In…

…Kamuela, HI, USA …Jerusalem, Israel …Mountain View, CA, USA – also a Google Hangout or …Naples, Italy Nov 20 — W. M. Keck Observatory, Kamuela HI: ‘2012 Astronomy Lecture Series: Black Holes and the Fate of the Universe;’ presented by … Continue reading

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One Fish, Two Fish…

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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In the Shadow of the Earth

From EarthSky There are several good times to think about and be aware of Earth’s shadow. Just like you or me, Earth casts a shadow. Earth’s shadow extends millions of miles into space, in the direction opposite the sun. There … Continue reading

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Tune in to The Space Show

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For over a decade now, Dr. David Livingston has been interviewing different interesting and important people involved with the space community, several times a week. “The Space Show® focuses on timely and important issues influencing the development of outer-space commerce … Continue reading

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Educate Yourself

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While we’ve already discussed ways to prepare yourself specifically for space travel, you probably need to think in terms of other types of education as well. What might be most needed once we live and work and play off world?  … Continue reading

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