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NASA has set a target date for the ISS Crew-11’s early return to earth. www.nasa.gov/... Undocking: 5 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Jan. 14 Splashdown: 3:40 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, off the coast of CA Crew: NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA...
by AKALib
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on Sat Jan 10, 2026 at 06:33 PM PST
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Imagine, if you will, waking up one day to the realization that Earth’s climate is changing, and humans are to blame. Imagine having heretofore dismissed - or simply not have paid attention to - the notion of global warming. Then one day a friend posts...
by SninkyPoo
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on Tue Dec 30, 2025 at 08:19 AM PST
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57 years ago on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968, astronaut Bill Anders aboard Apollo 8 captured this awe-inspiring picture named "Earthrise" of a blue earth rising above the barren lunar landscape. With Apollo 8, astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and...
by AKALib
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on Wed Dec 24, 2025 at 07:33 AM PST
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The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft was successfully launched yesterday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan; it transported NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev to the International Space Station...
by AKALib
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The Trump 2.0 Retribution Tour Continues– He Has the Pentagon “Gunning” for U.S. Democratic Senator Mark Kelly November 25, 2025 The Dictator Donald Trump 2.0 “I am your retribution tour” continues. Apparently, nothing, even major legal defeats, can...
by Blue Choir Singer
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on Tue Nov 25, 2025 at 01:16 PM PST
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As a retired STEM professional, I think the information published by NASA on their QFD (Quantum Flux Drive - NASA Warp Drive or Singularity Engine results in displacement not by movement but by geometric reconfiguration) and Navy patents for an...
by lamina566
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on Mon Nov 24, 2025 at 05:23 PM PST
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November 19, 1969 - the Lunar Module of Apollo 12 ,�with NASA astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. and Alan L. Bean, descended and landed in Surveyor crater on the surface of the moon. Hours later, ...
by AKALib
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on Tue Nov 18, 2025 at 03:00 PM PST
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who’s claim to intelligence is being on TV, is using the shutdown to gut the Goddard Space Flight Center while employees are furloughed. According to the Employee Union’s website, 13 campus buildings, housing around...
by Diamondman
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on Wed Nov 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and FarWestGirl. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by FarWestGirl
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on Tue Nov 11, 2025 at 09:00 PM PST
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Did you happen to read the David Suzuki interview that has recently taken the “climate change activist community” by storm? For many of us who work and think and write about the changing climate, Suzuki’s comments were shocking and provocative on a...
by SninkyPoo
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on Sat Nov 08, 2025 at 07:18 AM PST
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Former NASA nominee Jared Isaacman is getting another shot at running the space agency—and it’s no coincidence that it comes just as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have kissed and made up .
by Alex Samuels
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on Thu Oct 16, 2025 at 07:30 AM PDT
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Watch LIVE: Bill Nye and Members of Congress join advocates on Capitol Hill to defend NASA science. On Monday, October 6, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. CDT / 1:00 p.m EDT, amid the government shutdown, leaders from 20 national science, education, and space...
by Chuter
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on Mon Oct 06, 2025 at 08:46 AM PDT
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There is an interesting piece on Ars Technica today. First, some background — as many of you know, the U.S. is, in some way, headed back to the moon. The program of record, known as Artemis, uses the Space Launch System from Boeing, the Orion capsule...
by FerrisValyn
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on Thu Oct 02, 2025 at 10:46 AM PDT
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Transportation Secretary and acting Administrator of NASA Sean Duffy appeared on Fox Business Thursday to crow about the recent distraction White House announcement that the U.S. is returning to the moon—sorta. “Yeah. So, listen, this is exciting. This...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Sep 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and ...
by FarWestGirl
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, doomandgloom and FarWestGirl. Alumni editors include (but not limited...
by FarWestGirl
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The Trump administration has proposed cutting funding for the satellites, which are in good working order and provide some of the best data on carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere.
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by Inside Climate News
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on Thu Sep 18, 2025 at 06:00 AM PDT
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Here is yet another stunning image taken by the fabulous Webb telescope. The blue half of the image contains the star cluster named Pismis 24, which resides in the core of the Lobster Nebula (aka NGC 6357), ~5,500 light-years away, within our Milky Way...
by AKALib
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on Tue Sep 09, 2025 at 03:00 PM PDT
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For those wishing to take a bit of a break from the avalanche of other news inundating us over the past couple of days, a new report just published in Nature just might fill the bill by highlighting the latest discoveries from our plucky little Mars...
by Irontortoise
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on Wed Sep 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM PDT
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Guests: Heather Digby Parton of Salon, 'Driftglass' of 'Pro Left Podcast'... It's been a while, but they're back for today's BradCast to help send us off with a smile -- and just a little bit smarter -- for a brief, much-needed holiday break from the...
by TheBradBlog
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