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Out of this World Constellation Cookies
Scientifically accurate constellation cookies by Bridget Edwards from Bakeat350.
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Live the Astronaut Life: To Infinity and Beyond at ATX Space Camp!
Blast off to Kennedy Space Center with Dakster and her family as they train like an astronauts!
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Start Your Day With a…Lunar Eclipse?
If you’re in the mood to wake up a bit early tomorrow morning (October 8, 2014), you’ll get a pretty awesome lunar treat. That’s right, it’s total lunar eclipse time!
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Welcome to Mars, India!
India made science news around the world on September 24, 2014, with the announcement that their first Mars satellite, Mangalyaan, entered orbit around the red planet.
Continue ReadingThe Mission Is in Sight!
As a writer of science fiction, as well as a former astrophysics major in college, I usually like to stay up to date on science news. Space news in particular. And when I hear the words, “manned space travel,” I tend to get very excited.
Continue ReadingBuilding the Future with Lego Space
Is there a better way to learn about space than through Lego?
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11-Year-Old Writes a Book About Space – and It’s Good!
Walter Levin’s The Kid Who Went to the Moon fulfills every kid’s fantasy in more ways than one.
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Want Your Name on an Asteroid? Let Spacecraft OSIRIS-REx Take It There
OSIRIS-REx, an asteroid mission lead by professor Dante Lauretta at the University of Arizona, will carry your name into space!
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Geeky States of America: Maine’s Scale Model of Planet Earth
Explore the Earth in Maine, from a view that can’t be beat: DeLorme’s large scale replica of our planet.
Continue ReadingAstronauts Are Moms Too
Dr. Karen Nyberg returned from six months on the International Space Station to her fellow-astronaut husband and their three-year-old son.
Continue ReadingMeet Grace from Outer Space
This Kickstarter campaign to create a book to “get young girls interested in astronomy, science, and technology” has just a few days left for funding.
Continue ReadingFund This: Organic Yarn, Blast into Space and App Camp for Girls
This week, we take a peek at projects that can blast you into space, create jobs, and form someone’s future.
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Gravity is Gripping!
Me to Firstborn Son: Um. You need to sit next to me. Immediately. Him (sitting next to me immediately): I sense this is important. Me: I need to show you the trailer for the new Cuaron movie: Gravity. Him: Cuaron? The director of Children of Men as well as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of […]
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Gorgeous E-book Of Your Home, Free
You live in a place more beautiful than you can see with the naked eye. Want to see more? NASA can help.
Continue ReadingVideo: We’re NASA And We Know It (Sexy And I Know It Parody)
How often to you get to see those blue polo shirt-wearing engineers busting a move? Never. But this video has them dancing and singing and doing what I’d imagine happened after the cameras turned off once the Curiosity landed.
Continue ReadingMars Curiosity Lands Tonight!
Mars Curiosity is scheduled to land tonight at 10:31 p.m. PDT, Aug. 5 (1:31 a.m. EDT Aug. 6).
Continue ReadingThe GeekMoms Podcast #27: Fight For Space, Reigniting Our Passion For Space Exploration
Have you ever wondered how the US got to the point where funding missions to space just isn’t that important? Paul Hildebrandt wondered, and he’s launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a documentary and answer that question.
Continue ReadingNeil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye in Fight For Space Kickstarter
The goal here is not to solve the problem, but to start a discussion. There are complex social, political and economic factors that each play a roll in where our space program is today and only by understanding them can we hope to have the program rebound and inspire future generations.
Continue ReadingYou’re In My Space
An international team of scientists recently assessed which moons and planets are most habitable. They used two different indices: an Earth Similarity Index (ESI) and a Planetary Habitability Index (PHI) to identify likely prospects. You may want to start investing in exoplanet exploration ventures.
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