"Sometimes, I think NASA underplays this, but, yes, we are in the space business and in the knowledge business, but I’ve always believed that we’re really in the inspiration business..."
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Liftoff, @EuropaClipper!
Today, we embark on a new journey across the solar system in search of the ingredients for life within Jupiter's icy moon.
Our next chapter in space exploration has begun.
That's a go: Today our mission passed a standard planning milestone known as Key Decision Point E. We're now approved to proceed toward a launch period that opens Thursday, Oct. 10. https://t.co/P0GBjZIrnW
My story on @404mediaco for @CJR.
"I didn’t realize how important it would feel that the articles I do belong to me,” Koebler told CJR. “It gives me a sense of agency that I don’t think I ever had.”
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Born #OnThisDay in 1934 was astronomer, astrobiologist and science communicator Carl Sagan. As well as being one of the world's greatest science communicators, he worked on the Viking and Mariner missions. Listen to his famous 'Pale Blue Dot' monologue: https://t.co/BEEFIdGrgK
"For example, a 15-year study on over 55,000 Americans ages 18 to 100 found that running just five to 10 minutes per day at a slow pace (under six miles per hour) was associated with 'markedly reduced risks' for all causes of death."
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Anyone want to go to Manchester? "Almost 25 years after its release, The Matrix has been reimagined as a live show directed by Danny Boyle..."
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"To travel to places that we cannot reach physically, we need more than technology, logic or mathematics. We need imagination.
History has many examples of scientific discoveries that came about through the difficult and subtle art of changing perspective." - @carlorovelli
#OTD in 1977, Voyager 1 took this image of the Earth and Moon in a single frame, captured from 7.25 million miles away. It was the first of its kind taken by a spacecraft.
Great ending to @allegra_hyde's "The Last Catastrophe" wondering if The Eaters will live up to their name and if by extension Marmalade will live up to hers.
"The asteroid, 5515 Naderi, is a rock about six miles in diameter orbiting the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, far from the borders separating people on Earth."
https://t.co/lw3rrXPJG3