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Posted on 28th May 2021
Good news. Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will be heading to the ISS as a private astronaut in December of this year. Maezawa will be the first private astronaut to set foot on the ISS in 10 years. If you have no idea who Maezawa (or @yousuck2020) is, he is the Japanese fashion billionaire who is fa...
Posted on 5th Mar 2021
We have rovers on Mars. Perseverance (or Percy, if you're on nickname terms) landed there just a few weeks ago to join Curiosity. And don't forget about Spirit and Opportunity (or Oppy, if you like) which also spent years traversing the Martian wastelands. Then just yesterday we saw the...
Posted on 5th Mar 2021
Here's a brief history on our understanding of black holes. In 1783 John Michell had a thought. Now that in itself was not unusual, as Michell was a philosopher, and someone whose thoughts were purportedly generations ahead of his contemporaries. What was unusual was that Michell began to think ab...
Being almost the holidays, this might be a good time to talk about space tourism. Let’s ignore the advertising of well-known rocket launch companies and...
The hybrid solar eclipse in Exmouth a couple of weeks ago was a pretty rare event, but to the surprise of no-one it was predicted...
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