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Are You Ready to Visit Space?
How old were you when you decided you were going to be an Astronaut? I don’t know too many people who didn’t dream of this career as a child. What cooler job could there possibly be than to defy gravity and hang out somewhere out there? I think I was probably four or five the [...]
Launch Your Face Into Space
If you ever dreamed of exploring space when you were a kid, now is your chance. While you won’t be able to just climb aboard a space shuttle, you can send your face along with the crew. NASA just announced their “Face in Space”program. Upload a photograph and your name (or just your name) and [...]
How to Fly on the iPad
I’m willing to bet that as a child many of you dreamed of becoming a pilot when you grew up. Even though most of us didn’t end up going to flight school, we can still fly planes using our iPad, computer and desktop computers! The makers of X-Plane makes it simple for us. These mobile [...]
Astronomy for Amateurs
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed During our open mic session at the last Gnomedex, my good friend Derek Miller came up on stage to show off some backyard Astronomy that his Dad has done. Derek reminds us all that you don’t have to work at NASA [...]
Lunar Eclipse August 28, 2007
Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes http://live.pirillo.com/ – I was lucky enough to be able to catch the full lunar eclipse tonight, and put it out live over the Internet via uStream. Thank you, Mother Nature, for a beautiful show. Tonight’s lunar eclipse was definitely a sight to behold. [...]
Did NASA Fake the Moon Landings?
For years, I believed that NASA landed on the moon – until I read this: The shot of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planting the US flag on the moon’s surface was taken by a 16mm camera mounted on the Lunar Module. Aldrins shadow ‘A’ is far longer than Armstrong’s. Yet the only light on [...]
Apollo UFO
The Science Channel aired “First on the Moon- The Untold Story” this afternoon, and it’s full of holes – according to the Bad Ass astronomer, Phil Plait, and his NASA nerd friend, David Morrison. I really wanted to believe that Apollo 11 astronauts saw a UFO, but according to David at NASA: I just talked [...]
