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An airship boom in Southern California
Photo: the Aeroscraft in a hangar in CA. Image: Worldwide Aeros, Inc. In the Los Angeles Times, an article about an aerospace industry boom of sorts in Southern California, involving new twists on an...
View ArticleThe Stratos jump, in LEGO
Lego reenactment of the Red Bull Stratos jump. Scale 1:350. The post The Stratos jump, in LEGO appeared first on Boing Boing.
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Cats free-falling from space
Created by combatcameraman on b3ta. Felix the cat! (Via: crackajack.de. Thanks, Tara McGinley) Parachuting from 120,000 feet – Boing Boing Felix Baumgartner jumps with a parachute from space –...
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Vintage futures: Next Stop Mars, 1952
In the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, reader JMV shares this wonderful scan of a 1952 feature from the Vancouver Sun's "Weekend Picture Magazine" on the coming age of travel to Mars. Illustration by Edgar...
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Atlantis returns to Kennedy: a review of the space shuttle's new permanent...
Space educator Sawyer "@thenasaman" Rosenstein, 19, is a hardcore space fan. His enthusiasm for space flight was captured in a 2011 Boing Boing special feature, and shines weekly in his "Talking Space"...
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Go, Orion! NASA set to launch spacecraft on first step toward manned flights...
Final preparations are under way for NASA's Dec. 4 launch of the Orion spacecraft. Not since the final Space Shuttle mission in 2011 has there been so much excitement around American space flight....
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Fly over Pluto in animated New Horizons video. Here are the amazing images...
NASA released more amazing space imagery and scientific data, slowly and steadily coming down to earth from the New Horizons space probe after its historic fly-by of Pluto. The post Fly over Pluto in...
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NASA unveils gorgeous new false-color image of Pluto
It may be 'shopped, and we can tell by the pixels, but it's just the most beautiful image of Pluto mankind has ever seen. The post NASA unveils gorgeous new false-color image of Pluto appeared first on...
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How to name an exoplanet, by XKCD
XKCD's hot take on the recent space news around Kepler 452-B and Pluto. The post How to name an exoplanet, by XKCD appeared first on Boing Boing.
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Dark Side of the Pluto revealed in new NASA image from New Horizons mission
Pluto haze! In my brain. Lately, things, they don't seem the same. The post Dark Side of the Pluto revealed in new NASA image from New Horizons mission appeared first on Boing Boing.
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Virgin Galactic crash blamed on "single human error"
Federal safety officials say the builder of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo is at fault for not anticipating the copilot error that caused the spaceship's disintegration during a test flight nine months...
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Astronaut Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on the moon, has died at 82
"We leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind." These were the last words Eugene Cernan said upon leaving the surface of our moon, at the end of Apollo...
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#FalconHeavy success: SpaceX launches world's biggest rocket
UPDATE: THEY DID IT. It couldn't have gone more perfectly. #FalconHeavy success: @SpaceX launches world's biggest rocket. Congratulations, @elonmusk. Immigrants change the world. 20,000km/h speeds....
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How to become a spaceship pilot
How do you become a spaceship pilot? First, practice flapping your wings very hard. Or watch this Virgin Galactic video, and learn how these people became exactly that, and on "what inspires our...
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Elon Musk's SpaceX plans NASA test launch Saturday
NASA and SpaceX have completed thousands of hours of tests to prepare for this unmanned test flight to the International Space Station. The post Elon Musk's SpaceX plans NASA test launch Saturday...
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'Yuri's Night' space parties in L.A. Sat April 6th, then DC, Seattle,...
The annual space party 'Yuri's Night' happens in L.A. on Saturday April 6th, and then in a bunch more cities the following weekend: Washington, DC, Seattle, Colorado Springs, Kennedy Space Center on...
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#BlueMoon: Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin will land on Moon by 2024
“We must return to the Moon—this time to stay.” The post #BlueMoon: Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin will land on Moon by 2024 appeared first on Boing Boing.
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Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled moon, dies at 88
Twenty-four human beings have traveled from Earth to the moon. Fewer than half of them remain. Astronaut Al Worden, who flew to the moon in 1971 as a member of the Apollo 15 crew, has died. The...
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NASA picks Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, & Dynetics to build...
On Thursday, NASA announced that it has selected commercial space technology firms firms SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics to build lunar landing systems that can carry astronauts to the moon by 2024....
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Virgin Orbit fails on first rocket launch attempt, 'next big test ASAP' for...
Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit failed on its first rocket launch attempt, which took place out of the Mojave Spaceport in Southern California. Here's a quick shot from takeoff....
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