NASA Comes Out With 2020’s Moon Phase Calendar and Calculator
Download and assemble NASA’s free 2020 Moon Phase Calendar and Calculator now!
Continue ReadingDownload and assemble NASA’s free 2020 Moon Phase Calendar and Calculator now!
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Continue ReadingA collection of newspapers from July 1969 show how the Apollo 11 landing was reported at the time.
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Continue ReadingOn this 50th anniversary year of the first moon landing, learn about some old and new perspectives on the significance of the Apollo missions.
Continue Reading‘Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views & Undiscovered Moments’ shows us more of that amazing story through dozens of previously unpublished photos.
Continue ReadingReading Time: 5 minutes Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This is a guest post by Shelley Sackier. See the bottom of this post for more information about this engaging and talented writer and her upcoming book, The Antidote. Shelley Sackier, used with permission. “So how ‘bout that whole folding of the fabric of time thing?” I asked […]
Continue ReadingTake a journey this week with us to the campus of The Circle. The boys have really been looking forward to this one; Tom Hanks as FaceboGooglApple founder Steve ZuckerPage and Emma Watson as a too-smart customer experience drone with an overachievement complex seems like a surefire hit. Add a gorgeous Scottish accent and what’s not too love? Tune in and find out.
Continue ReadingNow, thanks to the LEGO Ideas program, you can build your very own Apollo Saturn V rocket!
Continue ReadingThis week, we’re chatting with Kirstyn Johnson, a spacesuit technology engineer with NASA, and besides totally geeking out about her job, we talk about the infamous Space Poop Challenge.
Continue Reading50 years ago today, NASA lost astronauts for the first time
Continue ReadingThinking of taking the kids to see the NASA historical drama ‘Hidden Figures?’ Read what you need to know about the movie.
Continue ReadingToday’s sponsor is a fun-to-play, educational game that challenges players to build rockets and explore space. The game is an outreach program associated with next month’s OSIRIS-REx mission.
Continue ReadingThis week, we’re beyond thrilled to bring you Commander Chris Hadfield: retired NASA astronaut, first Canadian to walk in space, phenomenally engaging speaker, and YouTube sensation.
Continue ReadingThis week’s poll: space probes!
Continue ReadingCome along on this special episode of the show, blast off to the ISS with astronauts, talk filmmaking with an IMAX director, and geek out about the national parks with an amazingly awesome geologist.
Continue ReadingThe brand-new IMAX film ‘A Beautiful Planet 3D’ was made in cooperation with NASA, and all of the footage was conceived and shot by astronauts aboard the ISS. The film opens today on IMAX screens around the country and presents a view of Earth that is beautiful–yes–but also inspiring, humbling, and just downright breathtaking.
Continue ReadingWhy settle for your local gallery when NASA is offering to include your artwork in an exhibition out of this world? NASA is looking for original artwork that captures the essence of exploration. They are going to put it all together and shoot it off to an asteroid. And YOU are invited to add your […]
Continue ReadingRemembering the Challenger’s last mission, and what it means to us thirty years later.
Continue ReadingGeekDad had a rare opportunity to speak with world-famous astronaut, author, actor, and activist Buzz Aldrin about the recent excitement surrounding Mars, the future of space exploration, and the final days of his “Get Your Ass To Mars” t-shirt campaign.
Continue ReadingIt’s one of the most familiar scenes from the Star Wars saga. Luke, realizing he is probably doomed to a mundane career of moisture-farming, takes his teen tantrum outside into the twilight, and stares wistfully at the two suns setting over the Tatooine horizon. And yet, just how strange is it to imagine a planet with two suns instead of just one?
Continue ReadingOther than the attractive but questionable title (which sometimes wreaks havoc on precise search engine searches), I love this book. I mean, you’ve got space. You’ve got photography. And I’m pretty sure there are very few people out there who do astrophotography better than NASA.
Continue ReadingA new Kickstarter game looks to educate the public about the physical hurdles and political challenges each NASA mission faces before becoming reality.
Continue ReadingCheck out GeekDad’s top 7 technologies that wouldn’t be possible without NASA’s research.
Continue ReadingConserving and displaying Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit, girls as CEOs and tech leaders, helping out the homeless, and a hackable suit of armor; all in GeekMom Samantha’s picks for this week’s Fund This!
Continue ReadingWatch live: A new NASA New Horizons press conference starts at 2pm ET, and will likely reveal new, and more remarkable, images from the flyby of Pluto.
Continue ReadingWith deep water comes deep responsibility. Why should you be interested in a 164 ft deep pool over three thousand miles away.
Continue ReadingNASA released the best image of Pluto we’ve seen so far. We really feel like we know the planet now, because it’s obvious: Pluto is Arrakis (from ‘Dune’).
Continue ReadingNASA Girls and Boys connects middle school students with NASA employees for a 5-week online summer mentoring program in all things STEM. The time to apply is now!
Continue ReadingNASA just put 6 cows into orbit…
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