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Learn Entry-Level Astronomy With National Geographic’s ‘Backyard Guide to the...
Reading Time: 4 minutesLearn about astronomy with your kids! Image used with permission. Now that the nights are starting to get warmer (in some places, at least!), it’s time to start considering some...
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Brickquility Base Here: The Eagle Has Landed!
Reading Time: 2 minutesA few days ago LEGO dropped this tweet: Landing soon… pic.twitter.com/6fTXlgjlyO — LEGO (@LEGO_Group) May 24, 2019 It prompted a great many rumors that, perhaps, there was an...
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Making and Sharing Memories of Apollo
Reading Time: 1 minuteThe build up to the celebration of the Apollo 11 anniversary is in full swing. NASA and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum have two unique opportunities. Share Your...
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‘Papa Put a Man on the Moon’ Book Review
Reading Time: 2 minutesImage via Penguin Random House Papa Put a Man on the Moon is a delightful picture book by Kristy Dempsey. It puts the huge scope of the Apollo program into the perspective of...
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Stack Overflow: To the Moon! Celebrating Apollo 50th
Reading Time: 5 minutes In the classic picture book Guess How Much I Love You, Big Nutbrown Hare says that he loves Little Nutbrown Hare “all the way to the moon … and back.” Neil Armstrong and Buzz...
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Apollo 50th: Apollo 25 Year Stamps and Lunar Gravity With Buzz
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe 25th Anniversary booklet from Air and Space and me with Buzz Aldrin (Images by Skip Owens and Steve Boxall) Nearly 50 years ago the human race set foot on another object in...
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Apollo 50th: Celebrating ‘Apollo’s Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings’
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis year, we’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of one of the biggest news stories of the 20th century, the first moon landing on July 20, 1969. Capturing the interest, hearts,...
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Apollo 50th: Living the Dream: My Time Working on the ISS
Reading Time: 8 minutesSpace has always been something that’s fascinated me. Being a child of the Shuttle era, I’m not old enough to remember the Apollo moon landings; however, that did not stop the...
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Apollo 50th: Building Estes’ 1:100 Scale Flying Saturn V
Reading Time: 7 minutesEstes’ 1:100 Scale Saturn V box. Picture by Michael J Estes Rockets has a 50th anniversary Saturn V kit out this year. I picked mine up at eRockets a while back, but be sure to...
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Stack Overflow: To Infinity … and Beyond!
Reading Time: 7 minutes My last Stack Overflow celebrated the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, and I figured this week might be a good time to continue the space-exploration theme. I have a pile...
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Memorial to France’s Forgotten Space Cat Finds Home, New Design
Reading Time: 2 minutes The effort to erect a memorial to honor the only cat known to have traveled to space and back is making some progress. Matthew Serge Guy led a 2017 Kickstarter campaign, with...
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NASA Comes Out With 2020’s Moon Phase Calendar and Calculator
Image: NASA Perfect for families who love to look at the night sky (or even the day sky, with the moon), you can print and make your own moon phase calendar on NASA’s website. NASA’s site has a...
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Space Cat Felicette Statue Unveiled at French University
Image courtesy Matthew Serge Guy A statue memorializing the only cat known to have traveled into space and back has been unveiled at a French university. A cat named Felicette was launched on a French...
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Watch the Crew Dragon Launch Live
We’re about to launch people into space in a new capsule. You know you want to watch! Click through to read all of "Watch the Crew Dragon Launch Live" at GeekDad.If you value content from...
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Watch NASA Fly a Helicopter Drone Live (Less the Time Delay) From Mars...
This is the first time NASA has attempted a controlled flight on another planet. It has taken 6 years, and NASA and JPL have had to overcome many factors: “To fit within the available accommodations...
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Adventures in Astronomy: The Popular Science by Celestron Travel Scope 60...
This summer, Camden Media signed a licensing agreement with Celestron to create a Popular Science-branded line of telescopes, microscopes, and other optical equipment. One of the first of these...
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See Astronauts Working in Space in ‘Among the Stars’ on Disney+
Beginning in the late 1950s and extending through the early 1970s, astronauts were big celebrities as they ventured where no person had gone before. Millions would watch the first astronaut orbit the...
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Adventures in Astronomy: The Popular Science by Celestron StarSense Explorer...
Back in September, I took a look at one of Celestron’s more modest astronomical offerings, the Popular Science by Celestron Travel Scope 60 Portable Telescope. As I had mentioned in my review, that...
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Netflix Original ‘Don’t Look Up’ Hits the Big Screen Before Streaming
Over the years, there have been several movies about asteroids or comets on a collision course with our planet. In some cases, humans are able to stop the impact from happening while others portray the...
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Observe Both Near and Far With the Celestron Regal ED 10x42mm Roof Binoculars
I wasn’t really looking for a pair of binoculars to review. But when I was regaled with how amazing the optics were on the Regal ED binoculars, and how they had replaced a different pair that cost over...
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