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The Ultimate Risk
Credit: Virgin Galactic Everyone knew the risks. Saturday’s tragic crash of Virgin Galactic’s space plan over the Mojave Desert was inevitable. Two highly regarded pilots subjected a new technology...
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Interstellar, of Course…
Credit: “Interstellar” Media Image – mashable.com Yes, I’ll admit I’m a geek. I married one, too. So of course we felt it necessary to see “Interstellar.” We read up on it, exchanged speculations...
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Lunar Properties – Yours for Cheap!
Credit: Lunar Embassy This sort of thing has been going on for seemingly ever – real estate for sale that’s basically unobtainable – but it’s never stopped anyone from trying and believe it or not,...
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Space Junk
Credit: NASA Maybe you read The New York Time’s July 16, 2015 article regarding a fragment of a Russian weather satellite passing near ISS caused one astronaut and two cosmonauts to enter a Soyuz...
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2015 New York Air Show!
I’ll admit I’m the first person who hates flying, but I do it anyway. That doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate the vessels that transport people from A to B. However, the winged method of...
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Space Objects
Credit: Project Helium Tears A few weeks ago I wrote about space junk. This entry’s a bit different. And yes, while this stuff was deliberately placed there, it’s not your garden-variety space...
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Ham Radio and the International Space Station
Credit: 15 December 2015 File Photo Sure, everyone’s done it. You pick up the phone, take a quick glance at a number you’ve never seen before and dialed it. A voice connects at the other end and it...
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Local Aliens
Susan Crawford, Gretchen Weerheim and a Photobombing Alien Pine Bush, NY Alien Festival is a local institution celebrating that town’s rather long legacy as the Hudson Valley’s premier UFO visitation...
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Moonstruck
The Moon, as photographed by Louis Daguerre, 1839 I’m not kidding when I say I’ve been moonstruck since childhood. That’s when my parents dragged me out of bed on one sultry July evening. Mom opened...
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1967 – The Year of Sacrifices for Space
Apollo 1 Crew – Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee – via NASA Space is an unforgiving place. It shows no mercy to those who venture to its infinite realm. It is a vacuum, cold and dark, punctuated...
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