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  1. Mendalla

    50 years since a human first set foot on a world other than Earth

    On Tuesday, it will be 50 years since the launch of Apollo 11, the first crewed expedition to the moon. More followed, and I remember those ones better. I was only 4 when 11 happened so don't really remember much. Of course, NASA has marked the anniversary by initiating a serious attempt to...
  2. Mendalla

    RIP, Nancy Roman

    In the 1950s, it was rare for women to be accepted in the sciences, let alone be given executive positions at new government agencies. Dr. Nancy Roman beat that system, becoming NASA's first chief of astronomy in 1959. Among the projects that she had a hand in was the Hubble Space Telescope, one...
  3. Mendalla

    Space geeks rejoice! We're landing on Mars tomorrow!

    NASA's new Mars probe, Insight (believe it or not, the twits at NASA made that into an irritatingly complex acronym which I refuse to spell out), touches down tomorrow. This is a stationary probe, not a rover, and it is going to be prying beneath the Martian surface using probes and...
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