It was supposed to be overcast both nights of my birthday present star gazing/camping weekend… so we decided not to bother bringing the telescope. But boy, we were wrong about Friday night. It was perfectly, crisply clear, and Poe Valley has one of darkest skies in Pennsylvania, thanks to being …
Fine, if I must be specific, my name is going to Mars. Thanks to a hilarious, useless, and completely awesome program—Send my Name to Mars—a microchip containing submitted names will travel to the Red Planet on the Mars2020 rover next year. You don’t have to explain that to me twice! …
NASA recently announced their name for the new program for our projected 2024 return to the moon, and it is perfect—Artemis. In Greek mythology, Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo and goddess of the moon, which is more than a small tip-of-the-hat at the Apollo program of the 1960s …
Curiosity is the most adorable ginormous robot on two planets. Look at its happy little face! (Source) I know it’s not actually the size of a corgi like Wall•E (though I’ll always picture it that way, to be honest). The size of a Kia Sorento or not, Curiosity is adorable, …
Last year, I did something truly awkward in order to do something awesome. It started when I spotted a photo of an astronaut on the cover of our local township’s newspaper. It was Charles Duke, who walked on the moon as a member of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. …
