On To Mars

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Hey, it’s BB-8 out there in deep space:-)

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So, Ultima Thule looks like two big snow balls sticking together. A half built snowman :-)

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https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/jovian-twilight-zone

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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120430.html

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John Young, one of only three people to twice go to the Moon died yesterday at the age of 87. He was also the first space shuttle commander and the head of the astronaut office for many years. His legendary coolness and straight talk will be sorely missed.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/01/06/legendary-astronaut-john-w-young-dies/

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http://www.ryannagata.com/

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https://twitter.com/w00ki33/status/870297388300156928/photo/1

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Cassini's Signal Detected After Dive Through Saturn's Rings

NASA's Cassini spacecraft is set to make its first dive through the narrow gap between Saturn and its rings on April 26, 2017.

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FUTURA mission: 200 days in space | Samantha Cristoforetti | TEDxESA

TEDxESA talk at the European Space Agency on 11 November, 2015: ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti joined TEDxESA on November 11th, 2015 with a personal ac...

How many SciFi-references can you pick out from astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti’s presentation? :-)

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Epic face paint for a rocket nerd :-)

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Crap!!!

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Updated astronomically correct lyrics.

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Artist rendition (Copyright holder: Caltech / R. Hurt (IPAC)) of what Planet 9 with the Sun in the background might look like if you were in orbit around Planet 9. The band of the Milky Way can be seen behind Planet 9 and there is lightning in its atmosphere. Less serious suggestions for a name include George (remember that Herschel wanted to name his newly discovered planet George but it was named Uranus instead) and Bowie (for newly deceased David Bowie, and if there are moons they could be called Major Tom, Ziggy etc).

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/01/21/evidence_found_of_a_possible_planet_in_the_outer_solar_system.html

We may still have a planet 9 in our solar system, Pluto got demoted but there may be another one...

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ORBCOMM-2 Full Launch Webcast

With this mission, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will deliver 11 satellites to low-Earth orbit for ORBCOMM, a leading global provider of Machine-to-Machine commun...

Jump to 9:20 for the broadcast.

SpaceX landed the first stage back on Earth after launching satellites! Wow!!

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Nadia Drake wearing a Moon-dress at New Horizons press conference.

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Isaac Newton impersonator and some time musician Brian May and science writer Nadia Drake (wearing Moon dress) at New Horizons press conference.