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Sunday Evening With Captain Owen Episode 018: ”The Planets”
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GeekDad Interviews Buzz Aldrin
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GeekGirlCon 2015 Recap
Reading Time: 6 minutesGeekGirlCon just held their fifth annual convention here in Seattle, WA. GeekGirlCon is all about celebrating women and their contributions across the sciences, technology, arts,...
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The Space Shuttle Challenger: 30 Years Later
Reading Time: 3 minutesI was 11 when the Challenger went on its last mission. It was one of those ridiculously sunny Florida days that made you forget that winter was even a thing. We were in a...
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Space Questions? Let’s Just ‘Ask the Astronaut’
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NASA Wants Your Artwork For Space
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Students Must Choose Rocket or Groot for Space Station Experiment Proposal
Reading Time: 1 minute As if they weren’t cool enough on their own, the International Space Station and the Guardians of the Galaxy have teamed up to offer students the chance to fly an experiment into...
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Introduce Your Kids to Really Big Numbers: ‘A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars’
Reading Time: 2 minutesImage: Greenwillow Books In honor of Pi Day (pi is not a large number, but it does go on forever and ever), I’m celebrating by reading a new book called A Hundred Billion...
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True Tatooine: the Reality of Circumbinary Planets
Reading Time: 3 minutesBinary sunset over Tatooine It’s one of the most familiar scenes from the Star Wars saga. Luke, realizing he is probably doomed to a mundane career of moisture-farming, takes his...
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Sunday Evening With Captain Owen Episode 018: ”The Planets”
Reading Time: 1 minuteSunday Evening With Captain Owen is a podcast where I sit down every other week with my son, who is 2 and a half, to discuss whatever he wants. The goal of the podcast is to...
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GeekDad Interviews Buzz Aldrin
Reading Time: 5 minutes Last week I had a rare opportunity to speak with world-famous astronaut, author, actor, and activist Buzz Aldrin about the recent excitement surrounding Mars, the future of...
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GeekGirlCon 2015 Recap
Reading Time: 6 minutesGeekGirlCon just held their fifth annual convention here in Seattle, WA. GeekGirlCon is all about celebrating women and their contributions across the sciences, technology, arts,...
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The Space Shuttle Challenger: 30 Years Later
Reading Time: 3 minutesI was 11 when the Challenger went on its last mission. It was one of those ridiculously sunny Florida days that made you forget that winter was even a thing. We were in a...
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Space Questions? Let’s Just ‘Ask the Astronaut’
Reading Time: 3 minutesImage: Smithsonian Books I know we’re a self-selected group here in Nerdland, but which of us hasn’t wondered about what it’s like to be in space, live in space, and work in...
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NASA Wants Your Artwork For Space
Reading Time: 2 minutesArt by EG Sinister Why settle for your local gallery when NASA is offering to include your artwork in an exhibition out of this world? NASA is looking for original artwork that...
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Queen’s Brian May Posts a Song/Video About the New Horizon’s Flyby of Ultima...
Reading Time: 1 minute With the recent attention paid on the band Queen due to the popular film that tracked their rise to fame, more people than ever know that their iconic guitarist Brian May is also...
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Breaking Atmo: Recent Space News and 2019 Look Ahead
Reading Time: 2 minutesNancy Grace Roman Passed Away Nancy Grace Roman in 1962 with a model of the Orbiting Solar Observatory. Image from NASA.gov Nancy Grace Roman commonly known as the “Mother of...
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Breaking Atmo: Good Night, Opportunity — February 2019
Reading Time: 1 minuteOn February 13, 2019, NASA officially ended the Mars Exploration Rovers Mission at a press conference at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena California. The rovers Spirit...
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Breaking Atmo – March 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesHere Be Dragons! SpaceX’s Dragon capsule splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean, Photo via NASA Last week saw the successful launch, on-orbit operations, including docking with the...
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OK Go Wants to Put Your Art Project in Space
Reading Time: 1 minute OK Go is well-known for their amazing music videos, featuring giant Rube Goldberg machines, trick perspectives, and walls of synchronized printers. Their video for “Upside Down...
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