Alan Shepard’s triumphant return to outer space on Apollo 14 after ten years since his historic flight in the Mercury program was remarkable. Despite having
We are quickly approaching the “Great Conjunction” on December 21, 2020, which means Jupiter and Saturn will be about one-tenth of a degree apart. The
There is a very short window to observe Mars at its best opposition, this year being one of those good years; it won’t happen again
What a fantastic night at Brooklyn Bridge Conservancy Park (BBCP) on Friday September 25th. It was the second time the club met this year at
Marcia Bartusiak’s book, Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking, Became Loved, Yale University Press (2015),
Total solar eclipses happen often but usually in places far away and seemingly problematic to get to. But of all those seen over millennia, only
Fifty years ago, the Apollo 13 mission became the seventh crewed mission of the Apollo Space Program, number eight if you included Apollo One, which
Amidst a Sea of Storms (Oceanus Procellarum) the Apollo XII lunar module lander, Intrepid, landed on the Moon with nearly pin-point accuracy on November 19, 1969,
It seems Saturn is the current winner of the Moon Race with Jupiter. Like a Baseball Home Run derby, Saturn has now surpassed Jupiter with
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