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Dr. Phil Metzger
DrPhiltill
Here's a concept I developed at NASA 18 years ago: "Multipole Radiation Shielding." Our director called it the First Generation Star Trek Shield. My lab lead had the idea to
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Parachute Museum
ParachuteMuseum
1/4. Former Wright Field researcher DT Barish invented the sailwing, 10yrs after patenting his vortex ring chute. It had a self-inflating ramair leading edge - one of the first. This
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Erika Palmerio
erikapal
You may have heard of the terrible news regarding the recent damage to the Arecibo Observatory In order to honour the facility and the amazing things it accomplished, I want
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Thomas Burghardt
TGMetsFan98
Final orbital launch statistics for 2020.I summarized some of this in my latest article for @NASASpaceflight: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/12/year-review-mars-lunar-samples-crew-from-us-starlink/The China Aerospace Science and Techn
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Tod R. Lauer
TodLauer
Today is the 51st anniversary of the launch of Apollo 12, which became famous for it's near abort when the Saturn V was struck by lightening, an action forestalled by
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Jason Hutt
jhutt75
Having a discussion today on some odor control challenges with the Orion toilet. No febreeze, glade, or candles allowed. If you want to recreate that used spacecraft smell, take a
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Daniel Estévez
ea4gpz
Today at 15:45 UTC @HopeMarsMission will be performing its Mars orbit insertion burn. Here are some technical details about this manoeuvre. Thread... The spacecraft would arrive to periapsis with a
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Joalda Morancy
solarrsystem
Time Travel! Every moment of our lives we are traveling through time, but how do we go about controlling where in the future or past we want to go? I'm
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People_of_Space: Nicholas
People_Of_Space
On 7/18/66, John Young & Michael Collins launched on Gemini 10, a mission with a lot of firsts. Gemini 10 was the 1st mission to rendezvous w/ 2 target vehicles.
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Science Insider
SciInsider
.@NASA, China, and the United Arab Emirates each have a mission speeding towards Mars — all set to arrive this month. Here’s what they aim to learn. https://www.businessinsider.com/three-mars-missions-arrive-february-from-nasa-china-uae
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Christian Möstl
chrisoutofspace
We have a new paper out! We predicted how many #solarstorms will impact Earth in the next solar cycle, and there may be a surprise in store for the @NASASun
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Emily Lakdawalla
elakdawalla
Join me LIVE Feb 18 with @VICENews at 11:45 PT / 14:45 ET / 19:45 UT to witness the landing of @NASAPersevere! I'll share all the detail I can cram
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Jason Perry
volcanopele
(Thread) Last week, data from the Juno spacecraft's JIRAM instrument from its Jupiter encounters on Feb 17 (PJ25) and Apr 10 (PJ26) of this year arrived in the PDS so
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⭐Nereide🪐
Nereide
Thread1/5#Mariner4 flew past #Mars on July 14, 1965, providing the 1st close-up photographs of another planet.This 1st close-up image ever taken of Mars shows an area about 330 km across
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RealScientists | Counts
realscientists
What other techniques do we use to hunt for alien worlds?Introducing the transit technique!For this technique we measure the light of a star & if a planet orbits a star
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The Aerospace Corporation
AerospaceCorp
1/ When a natural disaster strikes every minute counts, and satellite imagery is a key tool for first responders. Engineers at Aerospace are revolutionizing active satellite re-positioning with a new
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