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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future. H. G. Wells On this day Friday 10th 1990 – The Magellan space probe (right) reaches Venus. Saturday 11th - 1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon Space Legend of the We

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. Isaac Asimov Can an artificial miniature magnetosphere be used to protect spacecraft Radiation hazard On earth, the radiation hazards that you come across are generally related to the radioactive decay of heavy elements like radium and uranium releasing gamma rays and x-rays. However, out in space, it is a completely different story

This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful. Hermann Oberth Overdue Obituary Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS (5 April 1935 – 6 February 2018) British theoretical astrophysicist. He was the first to determine that galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their centres, and that such black holes power quasars.[3] Lynden-Bell was President of the Royal Astronomical S

Featuring an amazing interview with Space Expert David Baker taking a closer look at Falcon Heavy and what it all means, We also chat about Zuma!!!, and the new Nasa Budget. Venus V Mars Currently no manned missions to Venus in discussion at all ...But Why ? George Russell explains why there should be!!! New Horizons picture is Farthest Ever Taken From Earth! What really happened to GovSat-1’s Falcon 9 first stage European wakeup call. JAN WOERNER Blog http://blogs.esa.int/

We Chat about the Falcon Heavy Launch OBVIOUSLY! Great news on the Dream Chaser Trappist-1 and Extragalactic Exoplanets ESA’s Rave in Space 10th anniversary of the launch of the ESA’s Columbus Laboratory Module Space Walk - Misurkin and Shkaplerov Quick interview with Paul Hildebrandt Director, Fight for Space, and new Apollo 8 Documentary "First to the Moon" Kickstarter here Space Song playlist on spotify bit.ly/spacesongs If you enjoy the show please go over to www.Patreo

via @spacex The first test flight of Falcon Heavy is targeted for Tuesday, Feb. 6th at 1:30 PM ET from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. When Falcon Heavy lifts off, it will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two. "If it blows up the pad that's going to be a real pain in the neck," Musk "People are coming from all around the world to see what will either be a great rocket launch or the best fireworks display they've ever s

Twinkle, twinkle Tabby's Star: Dips in brightness so bizarre. Could it be we've found ET? Nope, not yet. It's dust we see. (bummer) Nadia Drake Casting a $20 Million Mirror for the World’s Largest Telescope The glass arcs that will let astronomers peer back millions of years are decades in the making The 1968 Book That Tried to Predict the World of 2018 Toward the year 2018 Astronaut of the week!!! John Watts Young If you're a kid, you want to be an astronaut. If you're an as

New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights Hamilton Wright Mable ; American essayist We are recording this on January the 1st 2018 News Angosat has been recued!!! Progress MS-06 freighter undocks from ISS Helen Sha