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You can now be buried on the moon - even if you're not rich
You can now have your cremated remains shot to the surface of Earth's moon for less than $10K US — but only if you're one of the first 50 people to register.
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The Moon is about to do something very weird — and people think it's a sign of the apocalypse
The full Moon in September will be both the darkest and brightest of the year — and some have said that the Blood Moon could be a sign of the apocalypse.
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Rest in Peace on the moon for $12,000
Many people dream of travelling to the moon, but if all else fails, they can now be laid to rest there. Celestial funeral firm Elysium Space is now offering a "Lunar Memorial," in which your cremated remains are privately dispatched to the moon. But it'll cost you—the early bird rate starts at $9,950 for the first 50 participants, but costs $11,950 thereafter.
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Once in a Blue Moon
On the 31st of July I captured the rise of the Full Blue Moon in Aquarius. It was a beautiful sight to witness & lucky for me to capture in a time lapse. This video is made up of 1038 frames & slowed down as close to real time as I could make it. I have been working on perfecting this type of time lapse for over a year now after seeing the work of a favorite photographer of mine Mark Gee.
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4 Theories About How the Moon Formed
Scientists have debated several scenarios that might explain our moon, but none of which are without flaws.
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Earth’s gravitational pull is reshaping the surface of the moon
Thanks, Earth?
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Total lunar eclipse to meet 'supermoon'
The Moon will turn a rusty hue in the early hours of Monday and may seem larger in the sky. The event is caused by a total lunar eclipse coinciding with another astronomical event called a supermoon. It's the second total lunar eclipse this year, but the first since 2008 where the whole eclipse will be visible from the UK.
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How Our Lunar Understanding Has Changed Since Apollo
Caves and meteorite strikes and more! We've learned a lot since Apollo astronauts walked on the surface over 40 years ago.
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Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse and Lightning Storm
What's more rare than a supermoon total lunar eclipse? How about a supermoon total lunar eclipse over a lightning storm.
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More than 8,400 hi-de Apollo photos have been uploaded to Flickr
The photographs of Neil Armstrong taking his ‘small step for man’ from Apollo 11 are instantly recognisable and some of the most famous in the world. But there are equally stunning images from Nasa’s Apollo missions that are not so familiar and are so perfect, they look like stills from a sci-fi film. More than 8,400 photographs from Nasa’s moon missions have been uploaded to Flickr in high resolution, and offer a fresh look at the lunar landings...
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The Fourth Man To Walk On the Moon Also Paints Beautiful Space Art
Since you consume the internet excessively, you’ve probably at some point seen the image above, maybe with the added text: MY NOSE ITCHES. This is a very funny meme, well done internet.
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Europe and Russia mission to assess Moon settlement
The European and Russian space agencies are to send a lander to an unexplored area at the Moon's south pole. It will be one of a series of missions that prepares for the return of humans to the surface and a possible permanent settlement. The spacecraft will assess whether there is water, and raw materials to make fuel and oxygen. BBC News has obtained exclusive details of the mission, called Luna 27, which is set for launch in five years' time.
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Russia and Europe to launch joint mission to dark side of Moon, then build base there
The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to join Russia’s ambitious plan to colonize the Moon, with an announcement that it will provide key tech for a planned exploration mission in 2020, and possibly help construct a permanent outpost. Announced by Russia’s space agency Roscosmos last November, Luna 27 is a robotic lander that will land in the South Pole–Aitken basin, a giant crater on the dark side of the...
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Image mosaic and topographic map of the moon
Visit the Moon Without Leaving Your Desk.
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Faxes From the Far Side
On the 10th of January 1956--about a decade into the Cold War and about a year into the Space Race--the United States Air Force launched the first vehicle in its top secret Genetrix program. The vehicle was a balloon—an enormous, 200-foot-tall, 100-foot-wide helium balloon—the first of hundreds... By Alan Bellows.
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Effort to crowdfund a moon rocket lags as time runs short
An effort to crowdfund a moon rocket has until Sunday to raise most of the $1 million its founders say they need to kick the project off. The Moonspike initiative seeks to build a 22-ton, liquid-fueled rocket to launch a small spacecraft to the moon’s surface. As of Friday afternoon, the group had raised about $116,000. The venture’s co-founders are Kristian von Bengtson, who made his name as the lead spacecraft designer and flight director for...
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No, a “checklist error” did not almost derail the first moon landing
I've modified a few specifics in this piece thanks to input from Apollo Lunar Surface Journal contributor Paul Fjeld. Thanks, Paul! Last week was the forty-sixth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing—the first of the six crewed landings on our nearest celestial neighbor. In the years between 1969 and 1972, 12 human beings walked on the surface of the moon...
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New model explains how the Earth stole the Moon’s lighter elements
Most of the Moon condensed while some metals were still vaporized.
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Why we’re going back to the Moon—with or without NASA
The discovery of lunar water has changed everything for human exploration. by Eric Berger.
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Why we’re going back to the Moon—with or without NASA
It was time for the spent rocket to die. So the 2,000kg Centaur upper stage, about the size of a yellow school bus, detached from its spacecraft and began falling toward the Moon six years ago. Soon lunar gravity took hold, tugging the Centaur ever faster toward the Moon’s inky black South Pole. An hour after separation, the rocket slammed into terra incognita at 9,000kph (or roughly 5,600mph).
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