In 1959, Project Mercury became the United States’ maiden space programme. This is the story of that programme, told through beautiful archive footage.
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Your body is amazing. Yes, you. From the bottoms of your feet to the top of your head and al the nasty stuff in between, here are some amazing facts about the human body
NASA Animation Demonstrates the Unusual Ways the Moons of Pluto Spin in Their Orbits
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Minute Physics and xkcd explain how to go to outer space
Looks pretty easy…
sagansense:
What this video mashup calls the ‘best of Carl Sagan arguments and comebacks’, I would clarify is rather a video compilation of a passionately curious and scientifically literate human being captured having intelligent conversation.
Cheers, Carl. Your patience and modesty are so rarely found on news media these days, and any opportunity to reflect upon your cadence is refreshing.
#CarlSaganDay
theverge:
NASA headquarters are in Houston, Texas after all, so the music scene must be having some sort of influence on the rocket scientists. The singer (who I really hope is a NASA employee as well) details interesting facts about the station in twanging verse.
SCIENCE AND BANJOS!
Ask a Mortician answers your burning questions about whether your favorite saint’s corpse is incorrupt or not
Oh, those kooky Catholics.
Submitted by Delsyd
The 10 biggest things in the known universe
In before “your mom”.
