Posts tagged NASA
“We went to the Moon, and we discovered Earth for the first time.”
To give up NASA and space exploration is to give up our dreams, our ambitions, and our future. Let’s not think of four years into the future. Let’s dream big!
How much would you pay for the universe?
Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about NASA, hope, and the dreams of humanity.
Do you realize that the $850 billion bank bailout — that sum of money — is greater than the entire fifty-year running budget of NASA?
This seems like an appropriate quote for today.
In 2012, NASA’s budget will be less than half a percent of the total Federal Budget. This also represents 35% of the total spending on academic scientific research in the United States.
Over the past 50 years, with little more than the pocket change left over, NASA has turned science-fiction into science-fact. Space stations, human spaceflight, interplanetary exploration - this is all reality now.
Imagine what we could accomplish if we started prioritizing science.
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Curiosity has a fandom and ships. The flight director, Bobak Ferdowski, has fanart and an fyeah blog.
Tumblr, this is why you are my favorite website.
Sir Woods: Dare Mighty Things - Curiosity Landing
At approximately 10:31 p.m. PT on August 5, the Mars Science Laboratory, or MSL, aka Curiosity successfully landed on Mars. Wow…just wow… I can’t explain to you guys the joy that overtook me as we got word of the successful landing. A decade of work from over 500 people came to fruition at…
THIS IS WHY I LOVE NASA AND SCIENCE. ALL OF THIS POST, RIGHT HERE.
LOVE that the internet has collectively downed NASA’s websites, even at this time of night, to geek out over Curiosity. WAY TO GO WORLD! WAY TO GO NASA!
Whoever is doing the Curiosity’s Twitter feed needs all the internet awards, pronto!
We have wheels on Mars!
NASA JPL Infographic: Curiosity: Seven Minutes of Terror
I hope that EMTs will be provided to Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists during the seven minutes it will take for the Curiosity rover to decelerate from 17,000 to 0 mph on its descent to the Martian surface. The scariest part looks to be right at the very end: if the rover’s “umbilical cord” fails to be cut, the landing module could drag the rover with it on its last, doomed flight. We’ll find out if the landing was successful at 1:30 AM EST this morning.
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