Posts with Tag: DART
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Posted on 11th Jul 2025
Remember NASA's DART mission? That was the one that played out like a reenactment of the movie Armageddon. You know, train a bunch of good-looking people to be astronauts, and then send them out to divert an asteroid heading for Earth. Great premise for a sci-fi movie, but there's a lot more ficti...
Posted on 20th Oct 2022
DART is the mission based on the Hollywood blockbuster Armageddon. You know, the movie where the oil drillers are trained to go to space because there couldn’t possibly be an astronaut capable of being trained to be an oil driller. Anyway, if you think Michael Bay’s explosions are over the top, well...
Being almost the holidays, this might be a good time to talk about space tourism. Let’s…
DART is the mission based on the Hollywood blockbuster Armageddon. You know, the…
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