For sale: Nuclear bomb-proof space station in Carmel Valley Who wouldn’t want to own a nuclear bomb-proof earth station and a piece of space history? The Jamesburg Earth Station, which transmitted some of the first images of the Apollo 11 moon landing, is on the market. The one-of-a-kind securely fenced 160-acre property comes with a…
While searching deep space for extra-terrestrial signals, scientists at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico have stumbled across signals broadcast from Earth nearly half a century ago. Radio astronomer Dr. Venn described how he made the historic discovery after analysing a number of signals originating from the same point in space. “I realised the signal…
Voyager 2 Completes Switch to Backup Thruster Set PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Voyager 2 has successfully switched to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Deep Space Network personnel sent commands to the spacecraft to make the change on Nov. 4 and received confirmation today that the switch has been…
From the Discovery Channel series “Rocket Science”: Alan Bean describes the lightning strike that knocked out power on the second lunar NASA landing mission shortly after launch. (www.foolishearthling.com)
A powerful solar flare that erupted Thursday (Nov. 3) from a huge blemish on the sun’s surface has been classified as an X1.9 flare, ranking it among the most powerful types of storms our star can unleash. The flare originated in a humongous sunspot that was sighted earlier this week, which is one of the…