What it takes to travel the stars!

This chart I found on Pinterest shows the gargantuan effort needed to travel between the stars. What do you think? https://pin.it/ncv3jnzwuncwjh

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30 Years Ago: Voyager 2’s Historic Neptune Flyby | NASA

Neptune as taken from NASA's Voyager 2 Thirty years ago, on Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made a close flyby of Neptune, giving humanity its first close-up of our solar system's eighth planet. Marking the end of the Voyager mission's Grand Tour of the solar system's four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune...

50 Years Ago: One Small Step, One Giant Leap | NASA

Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins awoke to start their fifth day in space at the end of their ninth revolution around the Moon. In Mission Control at the Manned Spacecraft Center, now the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Eugene F. Kranz’s White Team of controllers arrived on...

Hubble Uncovers Black Hole Disk that Shouldn’t Exist | NASA

As if black holes weren't mysterious enough, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found an unexpected thin disk of material furiously whirling around a supermassive black hole at the heart of the magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 3147, located 130 million light-years away.  The conundrum is that the disk shouldn't be there, based on current...

Space Travel – What good is it to the Human Race?

Yesterday NASA completed a successful test of the abort system of the Orion spacecraft, this is just one headline in a whole list of announcements in space exploration. Whether it's Space X, NASA or Blue Origin someone, somewhere is heading back to the Moon with a view to getting to Mars. https://youtu.be/4rfsDMGplZU But why?Many say...

Take part in the next Mars mission by adding your name!

One of the things I've come to realise is that I will not be an astronaut, I will not walk on the Moon and I will not walk on Mars. I'm too old and to be brutally honest to myself I would cost to much to launch! I was ind of born a few generations...

InSight Captures Sunrise and Sunset on Mars | NASA

A camera on the Insight's robotic arm snapped the photos on April 24 and 25, the 145th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. In local Mars time, the shots were taken starting around 5:30 a.m. and then again starting around 6:30 p.m. As a bonus, a camera under the lander's deck also caught clouds...

Pale Blue Dot

The Pale Blue Dot represents a goal not just point of light. When man can look back and see that same pale blue dot with his own eyes, it's will be the first step in truly understanding the place of humanity in the universe.

New Ultima Thule Discoveries from NASA’s New Horizons

Data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which passed the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule on January the 1st, is yielding scientific discoveries daily.

NASA’s Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space

For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the stars. NASA’s Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere – the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by the Sun. Voyager 2 now is slightly more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from Earth. Mission operators still can...

NASA Had High-Res Images of the Moon in the ’60s, So Why Couldn’t We See Them? from Curiosity.com

NASA Had High-Res Images of the Moon in the '60s, So Why Couldn't We See Them? | @curiositydotcom https://curiosity.com/topics/nasa-had-high-res-images-of-the-moon-in-the-60s-so-why-couldnt-we-see-them-curiosity?utm_source=androidapp

International Team, NASA Make Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice

An international team of researchers, including a NASA glaciologist, has discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice in northwest Greenland.