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Education, Everything Else, Science March 19, 2021March 19, 2021

This Golden Box Will Soon Make Oxygen on Mars. That’s Great News for Human Explorers.

A step in the right direction, it appears…should we ever get that far… https://www.livescience.com/mars-perseverance-moxie-makes-oxygen.html By Adam Mann – Live Science Having safely landed on Mars on Feb. 18, NASA’s newest rover, Perseverance, is […] Read More

Everything Else, Science March 15, 2021March 15, 2021

Biggest, Fastest Known Asteroid Flyby of 2021 Takes Place on March 21

https://strangesounds.org/2021/03/biggest-fastest-known-asteroid-flyby-of-2021-takes-place-on-march-21.html A massive asteroid is making a flyby of Earth on March 21. We’ve known about this kilometre-wide space rock for nearly 20 years, and its upcoming encounter the largest and […] Read More

General Commentary, Science February 22, 2021February 22, 2021

NASA’s Perseverance Landing on Mars — Video!!

Now this is cool!

General Commentary, Science February 18, 2021February 18, 2021

NASA Mars Rover Landing

How to watch and what is happening… https://www.livescience.com/mars-perseverance-landing-watch-live.html https://www.livescience.com/perseverance-landing-sequence.html

General Commentary, Science February 10, 2021February 10, 2021

Welcome to Mars! UAE’s Hope Probe Enters Orbit Around Red Planet

https://www.livescience.com/uae-hope-mars-mission-orbit-insertion-success.html By Meghan Bartels – Space.com Senior Writer After a nail-biting 27 minutes, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) first-ever interplanetary mission has successfully reached orbit around Mars. The spacecraft, dubbed Hope, launched July 19, 2020, […] Read More

General Commentary, Science February 1, 2021February 1, 2021

Spacewalkers Finishing 4 Years of Power Upgrades for Station

https://www.theepochtimes.com/spacewalkers-finishing-4-years-of-power-upgrades-for-station_3680063.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A pair of NASA astronauts ventured out on their second spacewalk in under a week Monday to complete a four-year effort to modernize the International Space Station’s power grid. Over the weekend, […] Read More

General Commentary, Science January 30, 2021January 30, 2021

NASA’s Mars Rover Perseverance is in the Home Stretch of its Journey to Red Planet

By Mike Wall – Space.com Senior Writer An artist’s depiction of NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, storing samples of Martian rocks in tubes for future delivery to Earth. Perseverance will land inside Mars’ […] Read More

Science October 21, 2020October 21, 2020

US Spacecraft Near Asteroid Landing

U.S. begins groundbreaking asteroid descentSome 200 million miles from Earth, between Mars and Jupiter, a NASA spacecraft began slowly approaching the surface of Bennu on Tuesday. The Osiris-Rex takes 4½ hours to […] Read More