ContributorNetwork – When Andrew Chaikin talks about the spirit of Apollo, people listen. Chaikin, after all, wrote the definitive history of the Apollo program. He has invoked Apollo to weigh in the ongoing debate between commercial space and NASA. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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Commercial Space: Spirit of Apollo or Spirit of Solyndra? (ContributorNetwork)
Impressive Photos of Nasa’s Mars Rover Spirit
NASA has recently decided to give up on recovering one of its two Mars rovers. The Spirit became stuck in 2009 and hasn’t been heard since March 22, 2010. It is said to be the victim of the planet’s frigid winter after seven years of work. Spirit and a sister craft named Opportunity successfully...
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NASA officials remember Mars rover Spirit (AP)
AP – The legacy of the Mars rover Spirit has been remembered by the team responsible for the workhorse explorer. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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The Last Panorama of the Spirit Rover on Mars
This is the last thing that the Spirit rover on Mars ever saw. APOD
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APNewsBreak: NASA to abandon trapped rover Spirit (AP)
AP – Spirit, the scrappy robot geologist that captivated the world with its antics on Mars before getting stuck in a sand trap, is about to meet its end after six productive years. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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NASA Trying Again to Awaken Silent Spirit Rover on Mars (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com – With spring on Mars in full swing, NASA is taking advantage of the Martian season’s ever-longer periods of daylight to try to reawaken its stuck rover, Spirit, after months of silence. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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Why the the IAU hold Pluto’s unique free spirit orbit against the planet Pluto?
Pluto is a free spirit with a unique orbit. It’s ecliptic is angled well enough where Pluto won’t collide with anybody which is more than you can say about some comets. Yet Pluto is like an Indy driver and cuts inside of Neptune’s orbit now-and-then. That’s part of the planet Pluto’s uniqueness. That’s what...
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Mars Rover Spirit May Not Survive Martian Winter (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com – NASA’s beleaguered Mars rover Spirit, which has been hibernating on the surface of Mars since March, is facing its toughest challenge yet the harsh conditions of the Martian winter. And the rover may lose. View full post on Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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Mars rover Spirit misses communication session (AP)
AP – The aging, sand-trapped Mars rover Spirit failed to make a scheduled communication this week and may have gone into a power-saving hibernation to survive the Red Planet’s winter, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Wednesday. View full post on Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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