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With all the excitement over NASA's recent success (and plans for future missions) on Mars, people sometimes overlook the Agency's other deep space missions. And there are many. One of our favorites of these lesser-known (but still remarkable) missions is Dawn.

The Dawn mission revolves around the exploration of Vesta and Ceres, the two largest ( Read more... )

Lindsey, Boe and their crewmates - Nicole Stott, Michael Barratt and spacewalkers Stephen Bowen and Alvin Drew - got in the proper spirit for undocking with a 3:23 a.m. wakeup song from Houston that was voted the second most popular in a NASA contest: the Alexander Courage theme from the 1960s television series "Star Trek."
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So since things have been a little slow around here, and since I've been lucky enough to check out the Star Trek exhibition that's come to the Louisville Science Center, I thought I'd give a little review and fill those of you in that haven't seen it!

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We have liftoff.

( Text behind cut: Discovery Blasts Off One Last Time )

I just discovered this rarely seen tribute program to Trek on youtube, in all of it's UPN 90's glory. I hadn't seen it posted here, so I thought I'd share ( Read more... )

Not specifically Trek, but it sort of is, because where would Star Trek and NASA be without each other, seriously?

Since today is the anniversary of Apollo 1, tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, and we're a few days off from the anniversary of the loss of Columbia (dear NASA, stop having missions at the end of January), ( Read more... )

The below video is really awesome.

A man went into thorough detail discussing the various moral/ethical issues involving the Prime Directive. This guy really gets into talking about this subject. At one point, I was watching this and thinking: "Dude, chill", but I understand the reason behind the enthusiasm: that while Star Trek may be "fake", it ( Read more... )

The actress who played Charlene Masters died on Oct. 17. She had a small guest role in "The Alternative Factor," but, wow, did she ever make an impression on me and many others.


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From Discovery:

Yesterday marked the 44th anniversary of the classic science fiction TV series Star Trek. On September 8, 1966, the first episode of Captain Kirk's adventures aired, and over the decades some of the imagined future technologies in the Star Trek universe have actually come to life in some way, shape or form ( Read more... )

How Capt. Kirk Changed the World

May 4, 2010: "Standard orbit, Mr. Sulu." Captain Kirk barks out the order with such confidence. He knows the USS Enterprise can slip in and out of planetary orbits with ease. But it's only easy in the realm of science fiction. In the real world, such maneuvers have been impossible --until now.

( Enter Dawn, NASA's cutting edge mission to the asteroid belt. )