Author: dave
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One of my favorite reads was “THE SPACE TOURIST’S HANDBOOK” by Eric Anderson, who on April 8th, 2001, blasted off in a Soyuz rocket for an eight day ride to the ISS and became the 415 person to enter space and the first person to pay to get there. His account and advice are written…
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Take a break from the idiocracy. Gazing into these images, I can’t help but think our existence is a conscienceless for the universe to identify what, itself, is. I write Science Fiction as a means of inventing future tech to see these wonders for myself. Click on the image below to see the Astronomy Photographer…
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This Wednesday (May 26th) will be a Super Flower Blood Moon, a must see if you have yet to experience this astronomical event–– it does turn blood red before your eyes. It is an early riser so set your coffee makers on timer and get out there. For all my friends in Florida, I know…
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Talk to any rocket engineer and they will say, ‘you need a plane that looks like a rocket and not a rocket that looks like a plane’. If you subscribe to that way of thinking, then you have not read Moshe F. Rubinstrein’s – The Minding Organization: Bring the Future to the Present and Turn…
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I share the Zodiac sign of Gemini with Laurie Anderson, listening to her music since the 70’s, re-wiring me forever thereafter as being, well, unusual when it came to my taste in music and obsession of taking the path less traveled. Laurie Anderson not only shaped my choice in music, but my outlook of the…
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I subscribe to NOAA Space Weather Alerts, because….. This is what came across this morning, an alert of K-7, which is pretty high on the scale and considered a STRONG storm. I use a couple of sites to see what is going on after receiving an alert: Space Weather Live NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center…
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Presented by the ESA: Very clever. Very talented. And very smart.
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I Here we are…. flying a helicopter on Mars, which is around 38+ million miles away from Earth, and getting both HD imagery as well as audio from another planet! Monday (May 10th) is a significant flight test for Ingenuity (yes… the Helicopter) where it will fly into a different airfield.
David Nadas 