Long March, China's homegrown rocket, sent the Shenzhou-12 crewed spacecraft with three astronauts aboard into space on Thursday. Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming, and Tang Hongbo will live in China's Tiangong space station for three months. They were allowed to carry some personal i...
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And just in case you're wondering, NASA's zero-gravity flights aboard modified C-9 aircraft are not examples of antigravity. Neither is the levitation effect achieved in 2007 by countering Casimir force, a quantum force that essentially causes objects to stick to one another -- a type of na...
The latter brought up hydraulic oil, indicating the presence of an aircraft. (Here's a more detailed account of the search and discovery that the team provided to Warbird Digest, a publication for military aircraft enthusiasts.) Salazar says that finding the Duck will be a tougher challenge. ...
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That confirmed for me it wasn't a comet, so on to the next thing. I start to think maybe it's some kind of satellite. I thought from looking at it outside of the telescope it was possible just based on the size and shape, but a satellite being that visible to the naked eye? ...
NASA and the public never did find out what Luna 15 was up to. Now we know it was a well-planned effort to upstage Apollo 11, or at least be onstage alongside the U.S. Moon landing, according to documents released and research done since the breakup of the Soviet Union...
Within an hour I had my faxed copy, which I sent to the service in France that translates my US documents into French for our appointment. You have to use an official translator for this service. My advisor said she was worried about the letter because It wasn’t signed, and I said it...
Kevin is spearheading the mission to get the upcomingPlacid Lassieexhibit to the public. He was showing me what they had already, from photos, plaques, documents, miniatures and more. I was given a very clear picture of how things will look when it is completed, and I am very excited. ...