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Tag Archives: astronauts
Blog #8: Antarctic Astronauts
This fall (summer in the southern hemisphere!) I will be spending two months in the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV) in Antarctica collecting rock samples and later using zircon dating to better understand glacial movement and exposure times of the MDVs. I will be spending 3 out of my 8 weeks at McMurdo Station training and […] Continue reading
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On This Day in Astronomy History…
On this day, April 9th, 59 years ago in 1959, NASA introduced the world to their first ever astronauts, the Mercury 7. A press conference was held in D.C. to announce the line up, and reveal America’s next move in the space race against the Soviet Union. This came a year after NASA had introduced […] Continue reading
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The Effect of Living in Space
While I think that studying space and astronomy is super awesome, I honestly am not sure I can imagine anything worse than living in space for an extended period of time. As we discussed in class, living in space (or at least in orbit) is essentially like being in constant free fall. You know that stomach […]
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The Effect of Living in Space
While I think that studying space and astronomy is super awesome, I honestly am not sure I can imagine anything worse than living in space for an extended period of time. As we discussed in class, living in space (or at least in orbit) is essentially like being in constant free fall. You know that stomach […] Continue reading
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Mars One Mission
In our society, the career of an astronaut has been painted as an idealistic childhood dream job or the mythical …
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Moon Landing Evidence! :)
In class today (Wednesday), I showed some of the lunar landing footage available to we, denizens of the Internet, for FREE! NASA is a public entity and as such, happily will show us many awesome things and has given us the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (ALSJ). Much of the text was written by former astronauts […]
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