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Apollo 13 Real-Time Streamed For 50th Anniversary
As of today (well, technically yesterday late afternoon) it’s been exactly 50 years to the day when the Apollo 13 spacecraft launched on its ill-fated flight. Now, if you’ve watched the film of the same name, then you probably already know what is going to happen. If you did, however,…
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SpaceX Plans to Launch Astronauts into Space by May!
It’s somewhat remarkable to think that it’s been nearly 10 years now since a rocket launched in America with the distinct purpose of putting astronauts into space. With the growing anticipation and hopes surrounding Elon Musk’s SpaceX project, however, it seems that the wait may (finally) be coming to an…
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Flat-Earth Theorist ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash
Around two years ago, a person by the name of ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes came to our attention. Promoting himself as a ‘Flat Earth Theorist‘, he built a steam-powered rocket in (basically) his tool shed and, perhaps even more bizarrely, launched himself within it in an attempt to prove that the…
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SpaceX May be Ready for Space Tourists by the End of 2021
If you were looking at options, as a private civilian, to get into space, then your chances 10 years ago seemed more than a little slim. With the launch of Elon Musk’s SpaceX program, however, that ‘slim’ chance has started to look a little rosier. In a report via TheNextWeb,…
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International Space Station Now Rocking 600 Mbps Internet
A recent hardware upgrade from NASA means that the International Space Station (ISS) now has a 600 Mbps data rate. The new update doubles the transfer rate they had before, which is a nice upgrade. No news on how many of them are streaming Netflix in 4K though. However, it…
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NASA Reveals Helicopter Attachment for Mars Rover
As we start to learn more about our neighbouring planet, various organisations (NASA chief amongst them) are looking to send more advanced robots (or more technically, ‘rovers’) to the surface. Specifically, to see what we can learn and, who knows, maybe even send a person there one day. Reveals details…
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Amazon Releases First Trailer for The Expanse Season 4
Amazon is taking the covers off of season 4 of The Expanse via a new trailer at the San Diego Comic Con 2019. The show is of course, the beloved SyFy show they rescued from cancellation. Set several centuries into the future, the solar system is divided between three major…
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Arianespace Rocket Crashes After Malfunction
Following the success of programs such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX, we have probably been treated to more rocket launches (that we could watch live) in the last couple of years than we’ve seen in the prior 20. Yes, it seems that rockets are back in fashion. Great news for those…
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Video Shows SpaceX Rocket Center Core Crash
SpaceX Center Core Crash Suffering a number of delays, Elon Musk went on record to say that the launch of the most recent SpaceX Heavy Falcon rocket was likely to be the most difficult in the program’s history. I daresay, however, that by ‘difficult’ he wasn’t expecting any parts to,…
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America Sends A Tesla Into Space – So Russia Sends A Lada
Russia Sends A Lada Into Space You may recall last year how Elon Musk pretty much amazed us all by successfully launching a Tesla car into space. As more of a PR exercise for his SpaceX program, it was still an amazing sight and at last indications, the car had…
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Reveals Blue Moon Lunar Lander
Jeff Bezos Reveals Lunar Lander It might have taken around 60 years, but we finally have something of a space race again as both Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos battle with their respective companies to be the first to get commercially out of this world. While we have seen more…
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A Black Hole Has Been Photographed for the First Time Ever
“Monster” Black Hole is 40 Billion km Across For the first time ever, scientists have actually photographed the elusive “black hole“. As one might recall from high-school science class, these black holes are incredibly dense and have extremely powerful gravity. So if an object cross their threshold (known as the…
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Where To Watch The SpaceX Rocket Launch!
SpaceX Following a delay earlier this week, Elon Musk’s SpaceX program today plans to launch a rocket into space. Well, technically a satellite, but it will be taken their via the rocket. You get the idea! This will represent the first major launch for the company since they amazed us…
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NASA Pays Volunteers £14,000 To Stay In Bed For 2 Months
NASA Pays Volunteers To Stay In Bed In terms of space travel, one of the biggest issues that faces organisations such as NASA is the effect that weightlessness can have on the human body. As cumbersome as gravity might be, our bodies have, after all, been designed to work with…
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Toyota Shows Off Rover Design for Japanese Moon Mission
Vital for Space Exploration The race to land humans on the moon is on once again. China of course, recently landed their Chang-e probe on the dark side early this year. That is just the preliminary step in their plan to establish a solar power station there. Meanwhile, the US…
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