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An Asteroid Caused Dinosaur Extinction – Are Humans Next ?

Dave Westrich — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:05:28 +0000

Without the extinction of the dinosaurs, mammals, specifically humans, never could have risen to the top of the food chain because WE would have been the food for many of the (carnivorous) dinosaurs. We can thank an asteroid for that. Now another asteroid threatens to collide with Earth. Are we to become extinct, too?According to [...]

Apollo 11 Engine Gives Hope for Future U.S. Space Travel

Dave Westrich — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:00:17 +0000

The bad news is, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has lost a bunch of funding the past few years and the space shuttles have been scuttled. Where do we go from here with space travel? What will be the mode of space travel, if any, for the future? This is where the Apollo 11 Engine comes in.

Be A Part Of The Mission To Mars

brad.bruner — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:00:39 +0000

Since a wee little lad, I, like many people young and old have dreamed of traveling to the far reaches of space. Heck, I'd settle with orbiting the Earth if that got me a ticket into space. Well, for my fellow couch astronauts, I'd like to present to you a way to leave this Earth and become a part of space history. Well, sort of.

NASA Captures Massive Solar Flare on Camera [VIDEO]

brad.bruner — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:05:55 +0000

It’s an amazing sight — and something you’ll never see it on this planet. A 90-minute storm on the surface of the Sun was captured on video by NASA last week. The video of the massive “solar tendril” was taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, a small satellite orbiting the Sun to gather data on [...]