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Before astronauts go to Mars, they will return to the Moon, Vice President Mike Pence said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed yesterday and in a speech at the National Air and Space Museum today. He touts “humans exploration and discovery” as the new focus… Continue reading Vice President Pence Vows US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon
The Deep Space Gateway is scheduled to be built in the 2020s. Continue reading Russia Will Help NASA Build an Orbital Moon Station
Deep-voiced and aptly named [Scott Manley] posted a video about the computer hack that saved Apollo 14. Unlike some articles about the incident, [Scott] gets into the technical details in an entertaining way. If you don’t remember, Apollo 14 had an issue where the abort command button would occasionally signal when it shouldn’t.
The common story is that a NASA engineer found a way to reprogram the Apollo guidance computer. However, [Scott] points out that the rope memory in the computer wasn’t reprogrammable and there was no remote way to send commands to the computer anyway.
The initial patch had …read more
Continue reading The Longest Tech Support Call: Apollo 14 Computer Hack
The ability to build a robot to take care of a tedious task for you is power indeed. For a few centuries, the task of helping determine one’s location fell to the sextant. Now, you can offload that task to this auto-sextant, courtesy of [Raz85].
To be clear, this robo-sextant doesn’t give you your exact location, but it does find and display the bearing and altitude of the most luminous object around and display them on the LCD — so, the sun and moon. A pair of cheap servos handle the horizontal and vertical movement, an Arduino Uno acts as …read more
Continue reading Finding The Sun And Moon The New Old-Fashioned Way
From a report: There’s even more water on the moon than we previously thought, according to new analysis of tiny glass beads left over from ancient volcanic eruptions. The naturally occurring beads were collected in the 1970s as part of the Apollo 15 a… Continue reading Water Found Deep Inside the Moon
Despite countless attempts and millions in venture capital, the calendar, one of the most ubiquitous work tools, has remained largely unchanged for as long as I can remember. Rather than overwrite the calendar in an effort to make it obsolete, Ahryun Moon and Jasper Sone, co-founders of GoodTime, are putting the calendar front and center — embracing it as a means of understanding… Read More Continue reading GoodTime nabs $2M to match job applicants with interviewers to save time and build rapport
And not burn out your eyeballs. Continue reading How to Make a Pair of DIY Glasses to View the Solar Eclipse
While the moon has no global magnetic field nowadays, it did have one in the past and researchers believe it lasted at least a billion years longer than previously thought. The Guardian reports: Between 4.25 billion and 3.56 billion years ago, the luna… Continue reading Moon Had Magnetic Field At Least a Billion Years Longer Than Thought, Says Study
“The experience is just so powerful that it becomes a major driving force in our lives.” Continue reading Inside the Thriving Subculture of Eclipse Chasers
Send family heirlooms, science projects, or a lock of your hair to the lunar surface with Astrobotic. Continue reading A Pittsburgh Company Has Secured a 2019 Rocket Launch to the Moon