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Learn Cool Fun Facts About Meteors And Meteorites 🌠

Learn Cool Fun Facts About Meteors And Meteorites 🌠2019-04-27T00:00:47+01:00
Shooting Stars & Cool Space Rocks! Seeing a bright meteor streaking across the sky is one of the coolest things you can see in the night sky; finding one of…
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Space Station’s | Man’s Home In The Sky

Space Station’s | Man’s Home In The Sky2019-04-28T02:14:13+01:00
Orbiting Laboratories Below you can check out some of the most famous space stations humans have built. Space stations are essentially human-made satellites which orbit Earth at a relatively low…
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Rocket Image Gallery

Rocket Image Gallery2019-04-28T04:25:27+01:00
Wicked Cool Images of Space Rockets! Rockets are some of the coolest machines that humans have ever developed and they range in size and type. The following image gallery has…
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Falcon 9 | SpaceX’s Remarkable Reusable Rocket!

Falcon 9 | SpaceX’s Remarkable Reusable Rocket!2019-04-28T01:34:37+01:00
Making Space Accessible! The Falcon 9 is a very special rocket developed by SpaceX with the help of NASA as they wanted to encourage private companies to develop the capability…
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Proteus – The Odd Boxed-Shaped Moon Of Neptune

Proteus – The Odd Boxed-Shaped Moon Of Neptune2019-04-27T00:41:30+01:00
The Second largest Neptunian Moon Only discovered in 1989 during the historic Voyager 2 flyby, Proteus is actually the second largest Neptunian moon and the largest of the inner moons.…
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Cool Facts On Saturn’s Magnificent Ring System!

Cool Facts On Saturn’s Magnificent Ring System!2019-04-27T01:18:17+01:00
Majestic Icy Rings Probably the most iconic feature in the solar system, the rings of Saturn were among the first features discovered by Galileo. Despite several other planets possessing ring…
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List Of The Solar System’s 30 Biggest Moons

List Of The Solar System’s 30 Biggest Moons2019-04-27T00:41:04+01:00
Biggest To Smallest Here you can learn about the 30 largest moons (by diameter) in the solar system! There are over 180 moons that orbit the planets and dwarf planets. …
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The InSight Martian Lander

The InSight Martian Lander2019-04-28T04:18:16+01:00
Probing Mars’ Deep Interior NASA's InSight Mars mission is a soft lander equipped with a seismometer and heat transfer probe to perform geophysical studies of Mars’ deep interior. The InSight…
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How 3D Printing Is Used In The Space Industry

How 3D Printing Is Used In The Space Industry2019-04-28T04:21:46+01:00
Quicker, Cheaper, Easier, Better! The rise of 3D printing technology is not confined to Earth. NASA, private businesses, and research institutions are quickly developing new uses for 3D printing to…
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67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko: Giant Space Rubber Duck Or Comet?

67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko: Giant Space Rubber Duck Or Comet?2019-04-27T00:15:27+01:00
The Oddly Shaped Comet! Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko was made famous by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta mission (2004 – 2016). However, it was originally discovered by two amateur Soviet astronomers…
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Cool Future Space Missions And Launches

Early 2022 -  2nd Test Flight of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner!
Mid 2022  -  Launch of The Dream Chaser Spaceplane!
Mid 2022  -  NASA's Orion Journey to the Moon!
Mid 2022  -  Launch The Space Launch System Rocket!
August 2022  -  Launch Psyche Spacecraft - Journey to 16 Psyche!
Aug-Sept 2022  -  Launch of ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
Late 2022 -  First Crewed Flight of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner!
Early 2023  -  Launch of the New Glenn Rocket!
Mid 2023  -  SpaceX's Starship 'Dear Moon' Mission!
10th October 2024  -  Launch Europa Clipper - To Jupiter's Moon
December 19th 2024  -  Parker Solar Probe's closest approach to The Sun
December 2025  -  BepiColombo Enters Mercury Orbit
Mid 2026  -  SpaceX launches the Starship with crew bound for Mars (hopefully)
11th April 2030  -  Europa Clipper Enters Jupiter's Orbit
Early 2030  -  The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Enters Jupiter's Orbit
In the 2030's  -  NASA plans to send Orion and Astronauts to Mars

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Psyche Metal World Probe Launches - August 2022!

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Launch of Europa Clipper to Jupiter!

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Cool Future Astronomy Events!

May 15-16th 2022 - Total Lunar Eclipse Across America's
December 8th 2022 - Mars at opposition (Closest to Earth)
April 20th 2023 - 1 min 16 sec Total Solar Eclipse!
October 14th 2023 - Annular (Ring of Fire!) Solar Eclipse!
April 8th 2024 - Total Solar Eclipse in Mexico & the USA!
May 6th 2025 - Saturn at equinox (the Rings disappear!)
August 2nd 2027 - 6 min 23 sec Total Solar Eclipse!
November 13th 2032 - Transit of Mercury
July 28th 2061 - Halley's Comet Returns!
December 10th 2117 - Next Transit of Venus
July 26th 69,163 AD - A simultaneous transit of Venus and Mercury!

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