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Lots of cool stuff this week. Read all the way to the end for a special treat of a video. Down to Earth The James Webb Space Telescope, under assembly and testing at Goddard Spaceflight Center, did a...
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The two weeks since my last “links” post have been very busy with mostly good news. The best news being a number of successful rocket launches (two of them space exploration related), helping to make...
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Down to Earth As of Friday night, the next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to send a Dragon capsule to the ISS is still on the ground. But the issue that caused launch abort on Tuesday has been dealt with, and...
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Sorry for the delayed post this week. It has been a busy month, as I prepare for my trip to the 31st Space Symposium in just over a week. Plus, I recently got a new Amazon Kindle and have been diving...
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I imagine that my time in Colorado Springs during the week of April 13th was a lot like what some first-time attendees at the Star Wars Celebration (also occurring that week, in LA) were going through....
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Down To Earth Last Monday, SpaceX announced preliminary findings related to the loss of a Falcon 9 rocket and its Dragon cargo mission last month. Here’s the companies official statement on their...
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Down to Earth Veteran astronaut Steve Swanson, who flew on the space shuttle and commanded the ISS last year, is retiring from NASA. According to his Wikipedia page, he has spent an impressive 195 days...
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Down to Earth Former NASA mathematician Katharine Johnson was recently awarded the presidential medal of freedom. She is currently 97 years old. Hungary is a new full member of the European Space...
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Down to Earth NASA’s Dawn mission was awarded the prestigious Collier Trophy. Former NASA astronaut Janet Kavandi is the new director of Glenn Research Center in Ohio. WIRED sent a guy to spend a day...
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Down to Earth United Launch Alliance has narrowed down the anomaly in their last Atlas V flight – which resulted in an early shutdown of the main stage – to a particular valve. Check out this...
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Down to Earth The crew of three Chinese taikonauts finished their 30-day stay aboard the Tiangong-2 space staion and returned to Earth last month. A planned cargo resupply flight (with no astronauts...
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Down To Earth American hero and original Mercury astronaut John Glenn died on December 8th. Former space shuttle astronaut, climate scientist, and director at Goddard Space Flight Center, died on...
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2015 year in review posts: Part I and Part II. 2014 year in review posts: Part I and Part II. 2013 year in review posts: Part I and Part II. Part I – Exploration Spaceflight, as a many-hundred...
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Down to Earth Legendary astronaut Gene Cernan has died at the age of 82. Captain Cernan had an incredible career in the Navy and then at NASA, where he flew on three important missions: Gemini 9,...
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Down to Earth Funeral services were held for Gemini and Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan in Houston on January 24th. The Russian workhorse heavy-lift rocket, the Proton, is currently grounded due to a...
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Down to Earth SpaceX’s latest Dragon capsule left the ISS on March 19th and was successfully recovered by the company at sea. A new exhibit about Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, has...
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Down to Earth JAXA has included a replacement for their lost Hitomi X-Ray astronomy satellite in next year’s budget. A new documentary about the early days of NASA Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of...
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Down to Earth It was a busy two weeks since my last post, but the most important event for those of us in the ISS program was the safe return of two crew members from the ISS on June 2nd. France’s...
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I’m back from my own personal August recess and catching up on almost a month of space news. Here’s your headline dump for August 14 to September 9! A lot has happened Down to Earth The Trump...
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Down to Earth Former astronaut Bruce McCandless II died at 80 years old. McCandless was selected as an astronaut in 1966 but didn’t fly until 1984 on STS-41-B. McCandless is probably best known as the...
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