In 1996, just months before he died, astronomer/astrophysicist/author Carl Sagan recorded this message to future colonists living on Mars.
Very interesting to hear 16 years later, in the light of Curiosity's landing, and cuts jeopardizing our national space programs.
Hopefully a few politicians are listening to his words of wisdom.
Just in time for Curiosity's perfect 10 landing, we're granted a positively stellar LEGO Mindstorms facsimile, complete with camera and Bluetooth-operated crane arm.
If this was available for purchase, we could all play along with Curiosity at home. Oh well.
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This adorable French animated short opens up a whole series of possibilities for deep space culinary arts.
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Let the astro-wizards at NASA guide you all over the moon. They fail to include the moon's best nightclubs and pizza joints, but it's still highly informative.
Last July was NASA's final space shuttle launch, but now all 135 takeoffs are compiled in a single video --simultaneously. You've served America well, shuttle. You will never be forgotten.
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Yesterday marked the transit of Venus across the sun, a rare astronomical event that won't happen again for another 100 years. In case you missed it, Geekosystem has gathered up the best images of the transit, as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
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SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft was successfully captured by the International Space Station this morning, making it the first privately-owned vessel in history to dock with the ISS.
At around 14:00 UTC -- 10:00 a.m. ET -- the Dragon was grabbed by the station's Canadian-built robot arm and pulled into the docking birth on the ISS's Harmony node.
In case you missed the live broadcast, NASA has posted video of the historic event.
