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POPSWhy America Needs to Explore Space I've often heard people question the "waste" of money to the space program. In their ignorance they simply do not know all the advances we've developed for the pittance in cost. Much more knowledge in the article.
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POPSAstronauts recall view before Earth Day (con't) "Up in space when you see a sunset or sunrise, the light is coming to you from the sun through that little shell of the Earth's atmosphere and back out to the spacecraft you're in. The atmosphere acts like a prism. So for a short period of time you see not only the reds, oranges and yellows, the luminous quality like you see on Earth, but you see the whole spectrum red-orange-yellow-blue-green-indigo-violet. "I left Earth three times. I found no place else to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth." _Wally Schirra, who flew around Earth on Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions in the 1960s.
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POPSSolar Sentinels "NASA's Science Mission Directorate is considering the Sentinals recommendations. Meanwhile, Solar Cycle 24 is beginning."
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POPSToday the Moon, Tomorrow? And yet, we do not boldly go. We stay here, on one small planet. We need to leave this Earth, if only because our Sun will eventually die.
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POPSIndia launches first unmanned moon mission In the last year, Asian nations have taken the lead in moon exploration. In October 2007, Japan sent up the Kaguya spacecraft. A month later, China's Chang'e-1 entered lunar orbit. Those missions took high-resolution pictures of the moon, but are not as comprehensive as Chandrayaan-1 will be or NASA's half-a-billion-dollar Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter scheduled to be launched next year, Pace said. The most comprehensive maps of the moon were made about 40 years ago during the Apollo era, he said.
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POPS360 degrees virtual Panoramas from around the World and the Moon surface (did NASA actually went there? haha.. do you know the meaning of mass hypnosis?) from the 6 Apollo missions. This 360 degrees panoramic views though really gives the feeling of being there..
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