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The expansion was taking a long time and I didn't listen to all of it. According to NASA, the expansion is "standing down for today" and more information will be available later.

And if NASA had enough money. The entire show is 99 episodes and I'm not even 10 episodes in, so there's still a lot ahead.

I started watching Space Brothers, it's free on Crunchyroll. I didn't expect it to be so silly, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. I think there's too much exposition though. For brothers, they look too dissimilar. Mutta actually looks Asian, but Hibito looks white. That and the use of...

I've had this idea for a while and now it's the perfect time.

Don't know why this video is unlisted, but here's the hosted webcast: I guess it might be reuploaded later.

There's an older thread about the spacecraft's assembly. Looking at Herschel, its mirror appears to reflect visible light well. If scientists could have stuck a visible camera in it, Herschel would have been a wide-angle visible observatory with a larger mirror than Hubble. Or maybe Herschel...

I'm tired and Aßmann is a hilarious surname.

As a result of the new Ocean Worlds Program, NASA will be including Titan and Enceladus proposals in the next New Frontiers mission. As for Europa, the Planetary Science program is still not certain of which booster will be used. According to Van Kane, the idea for an ESA daughter spacecraft has...

Looks like Europa Europe is considering the offer NASA made a while ago. Currently, it appears that NASA's Europa Clipper and lander will be launched on separate rockets, so there should be mass available for Europe's add-on. EDIT: As I thought, NASA dropped the idea of a daughter European...

This is how awful my procrastination has become: I'd rather write that.

The Delta IV Heavy and Atlas V are America's only active heavy lift launch vehicles, so there's not much choice. However, shouldn't ULA be developing Vulcan to end reliance on the RD-180s? With the Falcon Heavy debut soon, it seems prudent for SpaceX to develop a larger fairing.

Looks like Blue Origin is on its way to beat Virgin Galactic to carry private passengers. Considering New Shepard's capsule has a launch escape system, it may be safer than a spaceplane.

Must've forgot. But it would be nice to have something more specific than "many kilometers apart".

I'm either boring as hell or that is obvious and unfunny, like all other jokes I've seen today.

South Africa's nascent space program doesn't mention human spaceflight. It's more like RIC.

Google released a package of Lightroom and Photoshop plug-ins for free. Using Silver Efex Pro, I was able to salvage a photograph that's several months old. I should go back to that location and shoot an adjacent, slightly more photogenic building. It was under renovation when I took that photo.

Both of those scenarios assume ExoMars got contaminated in the first place. Sources don't mention how far away ExoMars was from Briz during the explosion.

EDIT: Missed the post by N_Molson The launch was apparently narrowly successful. The gif of ExoMars posted earlier is actually Briz and its debris. Universe Today: "ExoMars Mission Narrowly Avoids Exploding Booster" Popular Mechanics: "Did the New Russia-Europe Mars Mission Narrowly...

JPL: "Bright Spots and Color Differences Revealed on Ceres" "Occator Crater, measuring 57 miles (92 kilometers) across and 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) deep, contains the brightest area on Ceres." "This global map shows the surface of Ceres in enhanced color, encompassing infrared wavelengths...