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Has anyone got a idea how this month will be celebrated in England or Elsewhere ?
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Has anyone got a idea how this month will be celebrated in England or Elsewhere ?
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I think there are going to be quite a few TV shows to mark the events.
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I take it we are talking about the moon landing here?
about the moon landing ,40 years on. |
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Jupiter and some of its moons looked lovely in the night sky last night. I'll probably get the telescope out later too.
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The first pics from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...
...are shown here http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LR...0090702_a.html and they show an area of Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds) in great detail (kinda looks like the inside of an Aero choccy bar if you see what I mean).
As well as providing more detailed information about future potential landing sites for crewed return missions to the Moon, the camera on this probe is so good it should show the old Apollo mission debris on the Moon, e.g. lander bases, thus dispelling all those moronic conspiracy theories about humans never having gone to the Moon. There is also the accompanying press release here http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009...OC_images.html. |
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...are shown here http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LR...0090702_a.html and they show an area of Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds) in great detail (kinda looks like the inside of an Aero choccy bar if you see what I mean).
As well as providing more detailed information about future potential landing sites for crewed return missions to the Moon, the camera on this probe is so good it should show the old Apollo mission debris on the Moon, e.g. lander bases, thus dispelling all those moronic conspiracy theories about humans never having gone to the Moon. There is also the accompanying press release here http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009...OC_images.html. |
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As discussed in this thread, the LRO may not be able able to silence the CT nuts.
In addition, advanced Earth-based telescopes such as the Large Binocular Telescope (http://medusa.as.arizona.edu/lbto/) and the Keck Telescope (http://www.keckobservatory.org/) are adding to our understanding of the universe. Indeed, they are getting to the point now where they are even starting to exceed the capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope (though I hope we get another decade from that venerable machine). |
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Life of Neil Armstrong on BBC4 right now.
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Endeavour is go for a launch on Saturday. See here.
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More space exploration programmes...
can be found as part of the BBC's Moon Season including a Horizon programme on BBC 4 this evening at 8pm (repeated midnight). On Saturday on BBC4 there's going to be a re-run of the documentaries they've shown so far starting from 7.15pm onwards - some good stuff there.
And now for something completely different. The Russia Today channel is showing a documentary - The Martian Chronicles - about the exploration of Mars. It's going to be shown in the XL documentary slot on Friday 10 July and Sunday 12 July at (I think) 6.30am, 2.30pm, 6.30pm, 10.30pm. This channel is available on Freeview, Freesat and Sky. |
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can be found as part of the BBC's Moon Season including a Horizon programme on BBC 4 this evening at 8pm (repeated midnight). On Saturday on BBC4 there's going to be a re-run of the documentaries they've shown so far starting from 7.15pm onwards - some good stuff there.
And now for something completely different. The Russia Today channel is showing a documentary - The Martian Chronicles - about the exploration of Mars. It's going to be shown in the XL documentary slot on Friday 10 July and Sunday 12 July at (I think) 6.30am, 2.30pm, 6.30pm, 10.30pm. This channel is available on Freeview, Freesat and Sky. Good piece in today's Telegraph by Buzz Aldrin. He says that as soon as the mission of Apollo XI was over he never really kept in touch with the other two. I never realised that Buzz Lightyear was named after him. |
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Jupiter is currently very close to the moon. The two look absolutely stunning in the sky.
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Jupiter is currently very close to the moon. The two look absolutely stunning in the sky.
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Jupiter is currently very close to the moon. The two look absolutely stunning in the sky.
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Jupiter and some of its moons looked lovely in the night sky last night. I'll probably get the telescope out later too.
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Here is a wow picture. See http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090711.html
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Today's scheduled shuttle launch has been scrubbed for 24 hours.
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According to callers on the radio station I was listening to last night that was a "Stationary UFO".
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Last night Jupiter was looking beautiful close to the moon again.
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Just a reminder The Space Shuttle Endeavour's rescheduled launch is tonight at 23:13 GMT. Live coverage now on pre launch events on NASA TV.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html |
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Just a reminder The Space Shuttle Endeavour's rescheduled launch is tonight at 23:13 GMT. Live coverage now on pre launch events on NASA TV.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html |
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You must have rather better weather than me. Sky rather cloudy just now
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Bonhams auction - some cool stuff
Online Catalogue PDF Catalogue edit: Can't help but think many of the items estimates are way under. |
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ESA Updates...
There's some good news from the European Space Agency. The Herschel Space Telescope appears to be working fine and it has sent back its first pics here http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/obj...objectid=45075.
The ESA have also confirmed this month that they are proceeding the Advanced Reentry Vehicle (ARV) which will have the potential to carry humans - more in this story here http://www.esa.int/esaHS/SEMJQF6CTWF_index_0.html, http://www.esa.int/esaHS/SEMKCY4DHNF_iss_0.html. However, the 'Advanced' bit strikes me as being a bit of a misnomer. This looks like Project Orion again, i.e. another old Apollo clone-alike. Whatever happened to the Hermes lifting body project that was going to be launched atop and Ariane 5? Incidentally, Buzz Aldrin has gone on record that it is the lifting body concept, e.g. X20 Dyna-Soar, that he would prefer to see replace the shuttle. |
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