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Saturn V Rocket to the Moon with Moonshotkidz

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Saturn V Rocket to the Moon with Moonshotkidz

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.” – President John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1962, Houston, Texas, USA, Earth. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” – NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong, July 21, 1969, Sea of Tranquility, Moon. We believe learning can and should be fun—you just need the right tools! To celebrate the launch of our Summer 2025 Explorer Camps we’ve teamed up with Moonshotkidz. Experience the joy of STEM learning—just like our campers, with a ...

Distracted by your phone? Putting it out of reach may not help

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Distracted by your phone? Putting it out of reach may not help

Smartphones can be a distraction from other tasksPheelings media/Shutterstock Do you find yourself distracted at work, turning to your smartphone for a bit of mindless scrolling? One solution is to put your phone out of reach – but unfortunately, it seems this may not work. “People turn their phone upside down, hide it under a notebook, sometimes you see the slightly fatalistic ‘throw it over my shoulders behind me’,” says Maxi Heitmayer at the London School of Economics. He has previously studied phone use and found that people interact with their devices about every 5 minutes. To see if this distraction can be avoided, Heitmayer recorded 22 university students and office workers, aged between 22 and 31, working as usual on their laptops on a desk in a private ro...

SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

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SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) ahead of the launch of the Starlink 12-18 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now SpaceX is hoping to close out the weekend with a Falcon 9 rocket launching a batch of 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites. The weather forecast on Sunday, however, is quite problematic, with meteorologists tracking storms that “may pack strong wind gusts and even small hail.” Liftoff of the Starlink 6-80 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is currently targeted for 3:20 p.m. EDT (1920 UTC) on Sunday, March 30. Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff. Launch weather officers at the 45th Weather Squadron said as compared to a slightly windy, sunny day on Sa...

Fram2 astronauts arrive in Florida ahead of polar spaceflight – Spaceflight Now

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Fram2 astronauts arrive in Florida ahead of polar spaceflight – Spaceflight Now

The four astronauts of the Fram2 mission stand atop the crew access tower at Launch Complex 39A during a pad visit in mid-February. From left to right: Eric Philips, Chun Wang, Rabea Rogge, Jannicke Mikkelsen. Image: Fram2 Less than a month after the SpaceX Crew-10 mission blasted off to the International Space Station, another four-person crew is gearing to up launch from the same pad in Florida this time making history as the first astronauts to fly in a polar orbit. The mission is dubbed “Fram2” in reference to the Norwegian ship, Fram, which was used for Antarctic and Arctic expeditions in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In the same spirit, the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, Resilience, will orbit the Earth over the poles during the course of a three- to five-day mission. Fram2 is targ...

U.N. Celebrates First World Glacier Day – State of the Planet

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U.N. Celebrates First World Glacier Day – State of the Planet

Melting glaciers can have profound effects on nations all over the world—from mountain communities to small island states. At the U.N. headquarters in New York on Friday, March 21, U.N. General Assembly President Philémon Yang closed the proceedings of the inaugural World Glacier Day with a stark warning: “We cannot afford to wait, we must act before the ice disappears…before our glaciers all disappear.” Alphabetically arranged flags outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Credit: Joseph Griffiths The event was held in the Trusteeship Council Chamber, a space used from the 1940s through the 1990s to oversee the decolonization of territories under the administration of the U.N. The location was symbolic, since the chamber has long been associated with international coop...