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NASA ended the Space Shuttle Program in July of 2011, when the Space Shuttle Atlantis made its return trip to Earth. The program lasted for 30 years, and had a total of 135 missions. There will not be any more opportunities for you to watch the launch of a Space Shuttle. However, it is still possible for you to take
The big one we have all been waiting for is on it's way. The Mars Science Laboratory, better known as the Curiosity rover, lifted off yesterday from Florida and began it's 8 and half month journey to the red planet. Curiosity carries with it the hopes and dreams of, not just a lot of scientists and NASA engineers, but also
ISS pass with perseid meteor from Bryan Stewart on Vimeo.
Sixty years of the BBC's Reith Lectures archive have been made available as downloadable .mp3s, a fantastic resource for Renaissance geeks and lovers of 20th century history. The Reith Lectures are an annual short series of lectures on issues of the day pitched to the general public and given by respected individuals. They cover a wide range of topics but
If you were to draw a Venn diagram of the whole of science, I'd like to think that us geeks fit in there as a subset. Many of us come from a scientific background and appreciate science, scientific method and the benefits it brings to humanity. This isn't to say that we don't value art, but rather we have critical
Okay, the headline may be an exaggeration. After all, I don't know if records exist for such things and if they do, I didn't look for them. However, be it a record or not, this is still an absolutely amazing natural phenomena. In Wyoming, recently, a large amount of rain and snow-melt has resulted in unstable conditions. This, in turn,
To conclude our short series of posts on Yuri Gagarin's first orbit of the Earth in Vostok 1 fifty years' ago, I thought I might put together a few of the best links that I've found on the web for those who want to know more about Yuri and his historic flight. Yuri Gagarin's Wikipedia Entry YuriGagarin50.org - A comprehensive