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BYCoffee Or Die

Feb 9, 2021

Call sign ‘Vader-1’- US Space aggressors prepare American combat pilots for a new era of extraterrestrial warfare

Several times each year America’s premier combat pilots converge on Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada for an air war…

BYCoffee Or Die

Feb 9, 2021

BYBusiness Insider

Jul 20, 2020

What if the most powerful nuclear bomb exploded in space

We all know a nuclear blast on land brings devastating effects to the surrounding region. But what if humans detonated a nuclear bomb in space? Following is a transcript of the video. Imagine if we detonated a nuclear bomb in space? Actually,…

BYBusiness Insider

Jul 20, 2020

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

These technologies will help return astronauts to the Moon

Robotically surveying lunar craters in record time and mining resources in space could help NASA establish a sustained human presence at the Moon – part of the agency’s broader Moon to Mars exploration approach. Two mission concepts to explore th…

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

Scientists have discovered a mysterious lump on the moon’s far side

The far side of the moon is hiding a colossal secret beneath its airless, pockmarked surface. No one is quite sure what it is — the most precise wording researchers can muster is a “large excess of mass.” The feature lurks dozens of …

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

BYUnited States Army

Apr 29, 2020

Army astronaut holds Q&A from space

An Army astronaut on a six-month mission in space recently shared her experience, saying she still leans on her military training while aboard the International Space Station. Lt. Col. Anne McClain, a former helicopter pilot who has flown over…

BYUnited States Army

Apr 29, 2020

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

Listen to eerie audio of the first recorded ‘marsquake’

NASA’s Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely “marsquake.” The faint seismic signal, detected by the lander’s Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, was recorded on April 6, 201…

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

BYToday I Found Out

Apr 29, 2020

This is why Apollo 13 astronauts couldn’t just put their suits on to stay warm

Contrary to popular belief, space isn’t actually “cold” per se, at least not in the way often depicted in movies. Space is just mostly empty and all that nothing doesn’t have a temperature. For example, if you were in space without a space suit,…

BYToday I Found Out

Apr 29, 2020

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

Here’s the (failed) status of the first private lunar mission

April 11, 2019 Editor’s Note: NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine released the following statement on the Beresheet lunar lander: “While NASA regrets the end of the SpaceIL mission without a successful lunar landing of the Beresheet lander, we …

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

‘Twins Study’ reveals what happens to human genes in space

Results from NASA’s landmark Twins Study, which took place from 2015-2016, were published April 11, 2019, in Science. The integrated paper — encompas…

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

Everything you want to know about that black hole

A black hole and its shadow have been captured in an image for the first time, a historic feat by an international network of radio telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

How you can watch live as Israel attempts first private moon landing

Nearly two months after its commercial launch, a private Israeli spacecraft has slipped into lunar orbit and will soon try landing on the moon’s surface. The dishwasher-size robot, called Beresheet (a biblical reference that means “in the be…

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

It rains on the sun – this is how

For five months in mid 2017, Emily Mason did the same thing every day. Arriving to her office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, she sat at her desk, opened up her computer, and stared at images of the Sun — all day, ev…

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

SpaceX just fired up its Mars spaceship prototype for the first time

With a deafening roar that rattled windows, SpaceX — the rocket company founded by Elon Musk — fired up its new Mars rocket-ship prototype for the first time April 3, 2019. The roughly 60-foot-tall stainless-steel rocket ship, called the …

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

India’s satellite destruction now threatens International Space Station safety

NASA is calling India’s destruction of a satellite last week a “terrible, terrible thing” and says the space debris created by the explosion should be considered a threat to the International Space Station and the astronauts on board. India…

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

These are the habitation prototypes for NASA’s ‘Moon-to-Mars’ mission

Over the next several months, NASA will conduct a series of ground tests inside five uniquely designed, full-size, deep space habitat prototypes. The mockups, constructed by five American companies, offer different perspectives on how astronauts wil…

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

This is the deal with the NASA spacewalk spacesuit change

On Friday, March 29, 2019, Christina Koch and Anne McClain we…

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020