Category: space
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Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 22 – 28 January (no. 22)
Follow for a weekly list of forthcoming astronaut* birthdays. Maybe you share a birthday?! If not, perhaps it will be you who adds your name to the list?! If you do share a birthday, what does it mean to you? Do you feel a connection, pride? They take to the skies (on controlled explosions) to…
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“I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It’s fragile.”
– Alan Shepard (18 November 1923 – 21 July 1998) Alan Shepard was the second person and the first American in space. He later commanded the Apollo 14 mission and was the fifth person to walk on the moon. Now that’s what you call making a mark! He was recorded as saying: “I realized up…
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Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 15 – 21 January (no. 21)
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“93 percent stardust.”
– Nikita Gill, Your Soul Is A River Nikita Gill’s poem, from Your Soul is a River, speaks to me, unusually as I’m not a great fan of poetry. The poem goes: We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls. and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with…
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Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 8 – 14 January (no. 20)
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“As I take man’s last step from the surface, back home for some time to come – but we believe not too long into the future – I’d like to just (say) what I believe history will record.”
– Eugene Cernan (14 March 1934 – 16 January 2017) Eugene Cernan was the last man on the moon and as he stepped into the lunar module to return to the command module in lunar orbit he said these final words: “Bob, this is Gene, and I’m on the surface; and, as I take man’s…
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The Eagle has landed. Apollo 11 Landing from PDI to Touchdown
Just seen this and wanted to share it. A blow-by-blow account that follows Eagle descent to the lunar surface. You know they make it … but its still edge of the seat stuff! The Eagle has landed! ___________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and we can share it,…
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Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 1 – 7 January (no.19)
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“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.”
– Richard P. Feynman (11 May 1918 – 15 Feb 1988) In 1974, Feynman delivered the Caltech commencement address on the topic of cargo cult science, which has the semblance of science, but is only pseudoscience due to a lack of “a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a…
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Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 25 – 31 December (no.18)
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