NASA release Moonbase Alpha video game
June 30th, 2010 11:00am
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NASA has released a trailer for their new 3-D game set on the Moon called, “Moonbase Alpha”.
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Goodbye Nasa’s Phoenix Mars lander
May 25th, 2010 10:45am
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New images from NASA would suggest that the end really is nigh for their Mars Phoenix lander, which appears to have broken apart during the Red Planet’s fierce winter.
NASA releases incredible photos and videos of the Sun.
April 24th, 2010 2:30pm
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NASA has released some truly spectacular photos and videos of the Sun, courtesy of the recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory.
The observatory uses four telescopes looking at the currant bun in different wavelengths to produce some staggering photos and videos, fully living up to the mission’s goal of exploring “solar activity in unprecedented detail.”
Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch – awesome slo-mo footage
April 23rd, 2010 10:36am
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We love all things NASA, and this superb piece of footage of the Apollo 11 launch shows the immense power of the Saturn V rocket in delicious slow motion.
This HD clip was shot by Camera E-8 located at the base of the rocket and is running at an incredible 500 frames per second.
Robonaut 2: the first humanoid robot to go into space
April 14th, 2010 12:52pm
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NASA and General Motors have announced that they plan to send the Robonaut 2 humanoid robot (R2 to its friends) to the International Space Station this year, with aim of it eventually assisting astronauts on missions.
NASA serves up two stunning pictures of Earth for your desktop
February 24th, 2010 11:45am
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NASA has just posted up two astonishing high res images of the Earth from space which are simply begging to downloaded and used as your desktop wallpaper.
Said to be the most accurate, highest resolution true colour images of planet Earth yet, click on the images below to soak up the full – and truly awesome – 2048 x 2048 pixels glory.
NASA launches ace iPhone Game: Lunar Electric Rover Simulator
February 22nd, 2010 3:18pm
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When we were young, we used to look up at the Moon and imagine we were heroically piloting a lander, ready for some top notch lunar exploration before heading back to the module for lashings of gingerpop and cake.
Sadly, the call from the Command Centre never arrived, but at least NASA is giving us the opportunity to virtually control our own Lunar rover with its first ever iPhone game: the Lunar Electric Rover Simulator.
Video tour of the International Space Station in HD
February 10th, 2010 11:44am
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Quietly doing its thing above our heads since construction began in 1998 is the International Space Station (ISS), an orbiting research facility scheduled for completion by 2011.
Scheduled to remain in operation until at least 2015 – and probably five years after that – you can now take a tour through the station in High Definition video, thanks to a fabulous seven minute walk-through that’s just been posted up.
Now that’s what I call Tweeting! Astronaut Twitpics are out of this world
February 5th, 2010 8:21pm
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It’s all well and good telling the world you’re about to pop down the road to get some fags or that your toilet cistern isn’t working, but when it comes to knocking out interesting Tweets, Flight engineer Soichi Noguchi has got it nailed.
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NASA astronaut’s tweets are out of this world
January 22nd, 2010 4:33pm
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are now able to access what’s been described as the ‘ultimate wireless connection,’ and took not time in swiftly despatching the world’s first ‘Space Tweet.’
A software upgrade means that astronauts can enjoy personal access to the Internet and the World Wide Web from the space station instead of having to relay messages down to ground crew.
NASA shows off ridiculously cool ‘Puffin’ personal flying gizmo
January 20th, 2010 4:02pm
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Boy, do we want this thing. NASA has slapped up a YouTube video of their amazing Puffin personal aircraft: a mean, lean, hover-capable, electric-powered, super-quiet personal VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) flying machine.
Sadly, we’re only getting a computer generated animation of the aircraft at this stage, but the concept seems sound with the Puffin cleverly splitting its tail into four pieces to serve as landing gear, with flaps on the wings keeping the aircraft stable as it lifts and descends.
NASA IMAX 3D movie features astonishing Hubble repair footage
January 14th, 2010 11:08am
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Coming to an IMAX theatre near you soon is this astonishing 3D movie film from NASA.
Served up in delicious high definition 3D, the film promises to take viewers on a, “journey through distant galaxies to explore the grandeur and mysteries of our celestial surroundings.”
NASA invite you to Be A Martian
November 18th, 2009 11:11am
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Nasa have launched a new website called “Be A Martian” which invites users to play games while helping the space agency to sort through hundreds of thousands of images of the Red Planet.
So many photos have been returned by spacecraft since the 1960s that scientists have got no chance of checking them all themselves, so they’ve turned to crowdsourciing.
Apollo 17 site photographed by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
October 31st, 2009 11:57am
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To the sound of much gnashing of teeth from assorted ‘OMG! The Moon Landings Were A Hoax’ nutters, NASA has released some astonishing photos clearly showing the site of the Apollo 17 landing.
Lunar Lander rebuilt on Southwold Pier, Suffolk
October 30th, 2009 6:10pm
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Showing the kind of spirit that once made Britain the home of the Sinclair C5 and the Bouncing Bomb, engineer Iain Sharp decided to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing by remaking the 1979 Atari game Lunar Lander.
In that game, players had to try to land a computer module onto the moon’s surface, but Mr Sharp has created a physical version, mashing up old PCs, fishing line, inkjet printer motors and a miniature Moon lander.
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