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Student Art Contest

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Do you know a talented artist between 3 and 18 years old? Why not help them enter a contest? The Space Foundation has issued an invitation for their 2013 International Art Contest to PreK-12th grade students (or age equivalent outside … Continue reading

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Cassini Celebrates 15 Years

News feature: 2012-325 Oct. 15, 2012 A Long and Winding Road: Cassini Celebrates 15 Years The full version of this story with accompanying images is at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-325&cid=release_2012-325 Today, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft celebrates 15 years of uninterrupted drive time, earning it … Continue reading

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Red Bull Stratos On YouTube Live Topped 8 Million Concurrent Views

UPDATE: YouTube confirmed the 8 million concurrent views, but it’s worth noting that Dan Rayburn, EVP of StreamingMedia.com, makes a case that the media (yeah, that means me too) need to be careful using livestream numbers. Also, if you search … Continue reading

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Design Something Part 2

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Perhaps you aren’t an Aeronautics and Engineering Professor at MIT like Dava Newman who we mentioned in Design Something Part 1. That’s OK, you can still design things. There are other ways to learn things and create things.  How about … Continue reading

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Design Something Part 1

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What’s that your saying? Nothing described so far floats your boat? OK then, Design Something! You’re smart, you’re creative, why not? And there are certainly puzzles to solve. Puzzles like protecting the human body in the vacuum of space while … Continue reading

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Space Game: Aurora

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Aurora is one of my favorite computer games and has been since it was first created.  It is in the genre of what is known as 4x games (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate). It has been described as the “Dwarf … Continue reading

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Give to a Space Charity

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In 3 weeks, there is an auction held by a foundation created by the Mercury 7 Astronauts. If you are in Florida, USA, near the Kennedy Space Center, at the beginning of November, you might want to check it out. … Continue reading

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Connect & Collaborate with NASA

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I keep bumping into ‘NASA Social’ so I thought it was time to figure out what it’s all about. Turns out that it is part of something called Connect & Collaborate with NASA.  That’s made up of four parts, listed … Continue reading

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Felix Has to Wait!

Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner’s jump delayed until Sunday

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HamSats Part 4

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So, how do we use the rest of the HamSat system?  It starts with a little more information… Documents for New Satellite Users is a good place to start. “This is a collection of articles introducing amateur satellites and related topics … Continue reading

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