This Animation Shows How Fast A Rocket Must Go To Leave Every Planet

Our planet seen from Saturn, captured by the Cassini spacecraft

Image credit: NASA / Cassini

Eclipse News at AstroTidbits

Don’t know how to prepare for the coming total eclipse of the sun?  Get some info at http://www.astrotidbits.com and be ready.

Jupiter as seen by six different spacecraft.

NASA / JPL / SSI / JHUAPL / SwRI / Björn Jónsson

H.J. Detouche’s 1754 painting depicting Galileo Galilei displaying his telescope to Leonardo Donato, Doge of Venice.

The Clansman PRC-320 - Plessey RT-320 Military Manpack Transciever [HD] - M0VST (by markbeermonster)

November 3 1957, The Soviet Union launches the first animal into space—a dog name Laika—aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft. Laika, lived as a stray on the Moscow streets before being enlisted into the Soviet space program. Laika survived for several days as a passenger in the USSR’s second artificial Earth satellite, kept alive by a sophisticated life-support system. Electrodes attached to her body provided scientists on the ground with important information about the biological effects of space travel. She died after the batteries of her life-support system ran down.

Comet lander Philae wakes up: How it happened and what’s next

By Lauren Raab

Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet, surprised and delighted scientists this weekend by waking up and reestablishing contact with Earth, seven months after running out of power. It “spoke” for more than a minute, according to the European Space Agency, and it’s expected to be able to continue gathering information and sending it home.

Here’s a look at what the lander has done so far and what will happen next.

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What is the next step for hacktivists, radical or not. What’s 4Chan, what’s Anonymous and what’s the next thing? What’s the real deal - Ray Johansen gives his views.

Revolutionaries are always controversial. Some get proven right, some as a doing bad, some seen as doing equal amounts of both.The truth is complex. So we let Ray give us his views.

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Found a couple old photos of my mom practicing her ham radio skillz back in the day. Ham radio was actually the catalyst through which she met my father. Take that, Internet Dating.

My grandma made that dress she’s wearing with their call letters appliquéd along the hem.