Dan Brandon
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Jan 20
Happy Birthday, Buzz Aldrin! Apollo 11 Moonwalker Is 83 Today
Famed space man Buzz Aldrin, the second person ever to walk on the moon, is celebrating his 83rd birthday today (Jan. 20) in cosmic style. Aldrin, who along with Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong boldly walked where no one had before in 1969, is marking his birthday on the road with a trip to England. …
Jan 20
Veins, not Flowers, on Mars
By Caleb A. Scharf | January 18, 2013| The ‘John Klein’ rock surface, target for drilling. Scale of image is approximately 1 meter across. Image has been white-balanced to mimic Earth-illumination (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) NASA’s Curiosity rover is preparing to drill for the first time, into what appears to be sedimentary rock criss-crossed by mineral-filled veins. …
Jan 20
Surreal Lunar Orbit Footage From Doomed GRAIL Mission
By Caleb A. Scharf | January 11, 2013| On December 17th 2012 two small spacecraft called Ebb and Flow punched into the lunar surface at over 3,700 miles an hour. This ended the year long mission of NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL). The twin spacecraft spent most of this time orbiting the …
