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This video is no longer available.   Video created by Emily Carney. LEGAL NOTE: All photos by NASA. Song is “This Is It” by Kenny Loggins...

This video is no longer available.   This video is a condensed collection of photos from the Juno NASA Tweetup last week. Originally I had...

Juno hauling its solar-powered ass away from Earth around an hour and a half post-launch at 1:53 PM EDT, August 5th, 2011. Juno earlier this...

This is where Juno was at 4:10 PM EDT today. Screenshot by me. A while back Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in conjunction with the California...

 Juno’s Atlas V is on top of this plume, August 5th, 2011. At this time, the Atlas V was traveling downrange towards its desired interplanetary...

Woot! I am here y’allz. Right next to the Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC in the Tweetup tent. I can’t quite believe it myself. I...

I am here again in Titusville after a semi-arduous but necessary and money-saving bus trip. Excited and ready for fun…of course, watch this space over...

Photo from NASA Tweetup at Twitter. Also, Emily C. launches tomorrow morning. On a bus. To Florida’s Space Coast. See you there! Emily Carney is...

What I’ll be doing in a couple of days, Stanley Kubrick edition.  Hey space peeps. How y’all doing? I am doing quite well.  In less...

Presented without comment. Emily Carney is a writer, space enthusiast, and creator of the This Space Available space blog, published since 2010. In January 2019,...

   Juno is a solar-powered space probe, unlike its Pioneer and Voyager ancestors which were powered by radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). Scaled image provided by...

Here’s a cute picture of Apollo 12, because you’re going to need a palate cleanser after reading this blog post. I apologize in advance. 1969...

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Book Review: Designing Farms in Space

Meyer’s academic textbook is loaded with numerous photographs, diagrams, charts, and graphs. There are chapters on subjects such as farm machines, animal and fungi production, plant and algae production, and space menus. The farming techniques outlined in the book can be applied to lunar, Martian, or rotating space settlements.

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