Mars Bonanza King

Mars Rock Moves During Drilling, Team Elects to Stop Drilling.

(NASA/JPL) – Evaluation of a pale, flat Martian rock as the potential next drilling target for NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover determined that the rock was not stable enough for safe…

SLS five percent Scale test

NASA SLS Scale Rocket Test Firing – Video

The Space Launch System (SLS) will be the largest most powerful rocket the U.S. has ever built, larger even than the Saturn 5. This video shows a test firing if…

Falcon Test flight termination August 22, 2014

SpaceX Falcon 9 Explodes in Test Flight Over Texas

On Friday August 22 a Falcon F9R exploded with the on board computer detected a problem during a test flight. In a statement SpaceX said “flight termination system automatically terminated the…

Zero G Flame

File This Under Cool. Amazing Flame in Zero G Experiment

Amazing Flame Comes to Life in Space Station Microgravity Combustion Science I am not sure why but I think this is just cool. It reminded me of the zero G…

UFO over Huston Texas August 11, 2014

Finally an honest to goodness credible UFO report

Most UFO reports are well…unbelievable claims with fuzzy images that lead you to once again realize your time has been wasted, Well this is not the case This report was…

stardust

After Rough Landing Stardust Team Reports First Potential Interstellar Space Particles

(NASA) – If you remember the images of the stardust capsule as it tumbled to Earth back in 2006, its precious cargo of  Aerogel having hopefully captured tiny bits of…

Knowledgeorb.com Astronomy events 2014

Perseids Meteor Shower August 12, 13 – At same time as SuperMoon!

On the evening of Aug. 12-13, the annual Perseid meteor shower will peak in the skies over Earth. Unfortunately the Supermoon this month will wash out the less bright meteors. The supermoon…

Moon

Be sure to catch the August Super Moon spectacular this evening

If you missed the July 12 supermoon you will get a second chance to see it tonight (Aug 10). The supermoon happens when the moon is full the same day…