NASA is not about the ‘Adventure of Human Space Exploration’…We won’t be doing it just to get out there in space – we’ll be doing it because the things we learn out there will be making life better for a lot of people who won’t be able to go. The path of a cosmonaut is […]
Read more "Looking up at the stars"Music. Andy Ingersoll: Hi, I’m Andy Ingersoll, a member of the Cassini imaging team. Cassini has been in orbit around Saturn for 9 years and we’ve been following this hexagon which surrounds the north pole. It’s bigger than 2 Earths, and it’s a wandering jet stream. But it’s been winter in the north. So we […]
Read more "Mysterious Hurricane at Saturn’s North Pole"Read more "Blue dot"Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
― Carl Sagan
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us. The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to […]
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