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On 6 February 1971, Alan Shepard attached a modified six-iron head to a lunar sample-tool handle and hit two golf balls one-handed because his pressurised suit was too stiff for a normal swing. He joked that the second went “miles and miles and miles”; enhanced Apollo photographs analysed in 2021 placed the balls only about 24 and 40 yards away.
10+ hour, 37+ min ago (723+ words) Alan Shepard’s improvised lunar six iron produced two modest shots, then enhanced Apollo imagery finally measured how far the balls travelled....
On 5 September 1977 Voyager 1 left Cape Canaveral at 721.9 kg; as of 21 August 2024 it was 164.7 AU from Earth, moving about 38,027 mph relative to the Sun and still returning data
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (177+ words) Nearly five decades after launch, humanity's most distant emissary continues whispering back from the edge of the solar system, defying every expectation of how long a machine can survive in the void....
After more than 50 years, a solar telescope in New Mexico is being pulled down, after liquid mercury from the bearing that let its 250-ton optical system turn was found inside the tower. Crews found the metal on January 5.
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (575+ words) By The Daily Orbit Published September 11, 2026 · How we edit A solar telescope in New Mexico is being torn down, and the reason is a pool of liquid mercury hidden inside it. The mercury was the clever trick that made the…...
NASA lost a $125 million spacecraft at Mars because one engineering team used English units while another expected metric — the mismatch quietly pushed the orbiter onto the wrong trajectory after nine months in space
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (231+ words) A decade of planning and a quarter-billion dollars in funding vanished in seconds when two teams speaking different measurement languages sent a spacecraft crashing into Mars....
In 1962, Canada’s first satellite went into orbit with a planned life of 1 year — Alouette sent useful data for more than 10 years, carrying long antennas that had been packed for launch by rolling the metal strips up like a carpenter’s measuring tape.
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (529+ words) Alouette I exceeded its one-year design life and used antennas that unrolled from compact coils into long tubular structures. Its radio observations left an enduring archive....
On 28 October 1971, a British Black Arrow rocket put Prospero into orbit from the Australian desert — Parliament had been told on 29 July that the programme would end after this flight, leaving the next rocket to become an unflown museum exhibit.
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (611+ words) Black Arrow launched Prospero after Parliament had been told the programme would end. The unflown R4 rocket preserved the next step that never happened....
In 1965, MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory launched LES-1, which stopped transmitting two years later — but in 2012 amateurs heard it again at 237 MHz, and its builders now record the old satellite as it passes overhead in sunlight, using a rooftop antenna.
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (968+ words) After decades of silence, LES-1 was heard again in 2012. Lincoln Laboratory now records its sunlight-powered radio tone from a rooftop antenna. By Mission Notes · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit LES-1 stopped transmitting after two years of…...
In 2008, a team hauled 1,478 lunar data tapes and four obsolete drives to NASA Ames to recover pictures from the 1960s — and the laboratory where they restored those original views of the Moon in greater detail was an abandoned McDonald’s restaurant.
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (309+ words) The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project restored old tape drives inside a former McDonald’s to retrieve detail preserved in recordings from the 1960s....
OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman and his wife Anna put $5.5 million toward buying the 63-acre Moon Camp shoreline at Big Bear Lake, stopping a planned 50-home marina near the Jackie and Shadow bald eagle nest
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (24+ words) An AI executive's $5.5 million gift saves a California lakeside nesting ground from development, protecting the eagles whose livestreamed lives captivate millions....
An 18-year-old high school senior from Pasadena wrote machine-learning code to comb 200 billion entries of raw infrared sky data, sorted what came back, and in 2025 found 1.5 million new potential objects
1+ week, 3+ day ago (85+ words) A teenager weaponized a decade of archival telescope data to unearth 1.5 million celestial mysteries that professional astronomers had missed....