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These space toys and books are STEM-inspired for your little astronauts.

February 14, 2021 By Raul DIEGO Less than a month away from the one-year anniversary of the pandemic’s official declaration, policy wonks at the Atlantic Council together with former and current government officials are dissecting the “lessons” of the Covid-19 epidemic to advise the Biden administration on the steps to take in order to avert the next disaster. Following a report by the Atlantic Council’s “Forward Defense” program housed within the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and...

Read more about Board of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise approves termination of GDR program on Business Standard. At meeting held on 12 February 2021

One of the great, unsung virtues. Curiosity brought the world math, physics--in fact all sciences--and of course cryptanalysis, to name a few things. In...

JOHNSON CITY - Orlin Leon Collins, 84, passed away Sunday, February 7, 2021 with his children by his side at his residence in Johnson City, TN.

Commander Shepard visited the lunar surface during the Apollo 14 mission  Nearing the end of his moon walk, he hit two golf balls using a makeshift club One went into a crater — but the ultimate location of the other was unclear Image expert Andy Saunders digitally enhanced images taken on the mission The second ball, he revealed, travelled a mere 40 yards before coming to rest 

Scientists have revealed an incredibly detailed image of the moons surface showing objects as small as five metres in diameter, captured with reflected radar signals. The image, released by the USs National Radio Astronomy Observatory, shows the landing site of NASAs Apollo 15 mission in 1971 and the surrounding grooves and jagged craters.  To obtain the image, researchers used satellites that shoot a powerful radar signal towards the moon, which was then reflected back to a system of 10 radi...

Published 29 January 2021 The Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense has called on the federal government to urgently implement the recommendations specified in its new report, The Apollo Program for Biodefense: Winning the Race Against Biological Threats. The report details an ambitious program to develop and deploy the technologies needed to defend against all biological threats, empower public health, and prevent pandemics. The Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense has called on the federal gov...

Apollo AS-204 Fire Fifty-four years ago this month the Apollo 204 prime crew perished as fire swept through their Apollo Block I Command Module (CM). The Apollo 204 crew of Command Pilot Vigil I. “Gus” Grissom, Senior Pilot Edward H. White II and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee had been scheduled to make the first manned flight of the Apollo Program some three weeks hence. On Friday, 27 January 1967, during a plugs-out ground test on LC-34 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, a fire broke out in the Apollo 2...

NASA to begin new RS-25 engine test series for future Artemis missions January 27, 2021 NASA is set to begin a new round of tests for development of RS-25 engines that will help power the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on future missions to the Moon and, eventually, Mars. The first test of the new series is set for today on the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and will be streamed live on NASA TV. The seven-test series will use RS-25 developme...