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Category Archives: Space Exploration
A busy year for NASA spacecraft
Despite the fact that the Space Shuttle program will end permanently during the coming months,1 NASA still has a busy schedule in 2011. This year will see the launch of three new unmanned science missions in the short span of … Read the rest of this entry
Objects in Space
Distances in space can be a very relative thing. After all, the universe is billions of light years1 across. So I had to laugh yesterday when reading a NASA news item2 that described a recently discovered black hole (named SN … Read the rest of this entry
Posted in Articles, Science, Space Exploration
Tagged black hole, Chandra, distance, light year, linkedin, NASA
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Five people I’d like to meet
This week BizTimes.com ran an article about the “10 People who are Changing Milwaukee” and it started me thinking about the various people I’d like to meet. Before creating my list, I set a few basic ground rules: Unlike the BizTimes … Read the rest of this entry
Last of the Original Rocketmen
Earlier this week I learned from the NASA website that Konrad Dannenberg died on Monday at the age of 96. Dannenberg was a key member of Wernher von Braun’s original engineering team that developed the hardware and processes which enabled … Read the rest of this entry
Posted in Science, Space Exploration, Technology, The Future
Tagged aviation history, Foo Fighters, Konrad Dannenberg, NASA, Operation Paperclip, Redstone, Saturn V, UFOs
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