Once upon a time humans took short trips to the Moon. Then we stopped. Now we are going back – to stay. The prospect of an actual Moon base wherein […]
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Honoring Space Explorers As We Continue Their Quest
Keith’s note (from 2003): “We were here to erect a memorial to Columbia astronaut Michael Anderson. These memorials take the form of an inukshuk, a stone sculpture in rough human […]
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Goofy Mars Conspiracies Part 1
The Wild Conspiracy Theory That NASA Is Faking Its Mars Rover Missions In Canada, Mashable “Apparently, a lot of people are convinced that NASA’s Mars missions are a big hoax, […]
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Passage To Mars
Review: Passage To Mars, SpaceRef “Passage to Mars” is a documentary about a bunch of guys who try to drive across a large frozen stretch of the Northwest Passage. They […]
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Mars On Earth
Full-Circle Vista from NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Shows ‘Murray Buttes’ “Eroded mesas and buttes reminiscent of the U.S. Southwest shape part of the horizon in the latest 360-degree color panorama […]
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Memorials to Columbia on Devon Island
Twin inukshuks on Devon Island. On the left is the Challenger Inukshuk on the right is the memorial to a member of the Columbia crew. NASA Haughton-Mars Project Space Shuttle […]
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Looking Back While Looking Forward
Devon Island Journal 20 July 2003: Arctic Memorials and Starship Yearnings “Given the sheer mass of the structure, and the slow manner with which things change here, this inukshuk may […]
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Memorials to Columbia on Devon Island
Twin inukshuks on Devon Island. On the left is the Challenger Inukshuk on the right is the memorial to a member of the Columbia crew. NASA Haughton-Mars Project Space Shuttle […]
Posted inAstronauts
Memorials at "Mars on Earth"
Keith’s note: Astronaut Leroy Chiao, Matt Reyes, myself, and a bunch of Inuit kids built this inuksuk memorial to the Challenger crew in 2007 on Devon Island. It stands next […]
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Live Webcams On Devon Island (Update with Video)
Live Webcams On Devon Island, 1 June 2010 “There are several webcams currently in operation on Devon Island in Support of the Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse located at the HMP […]