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Is Kodak (or someone else) still making 110 film cartridges? I know film is making a comeback for some retro-nostalgia reasons, but I wasn't aware there was still support for these old point & shoot film formats (had forgotten how grainy the tiny frame of a 110 image could be)🤔
To celebrate STScI’s 45 years as stewards of space astronomy, we viewed the institute with a 110 film camera, a format that was available in 1981, our first year in operation. Among these photos are objects that were just ideas then, such as a model of #NASAWebb. Credit: STScI.
ALT A sign hanging on a brick wall with the STScI logo and the words: Space Telescope Science Institute.
ALT The view of the Webb Mission Operations Center from a hallway shows four large computer screens with the time at 19:04.
ALT A faded square image of a man working on an image of an object in space on a computer screen.
ALT A tightly cropped image of a model of the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror near a window.
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Cinemagic Magazine was my favorite of those old publications. Many how to articles on how to create homemade special effects shots for my half baked sci-fi movie ideas.
I was always planning out shots, then attempting to wrap a story around the VFX (in exactly the wrong order:)
Before the rise of online entertainment sites, this is where genre fans got their news space.com/entertainment/lege…
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I'd be all for the 'life imitating art' option of Clavius Crater as the site of a lunar base. I think anything that would make 2001 seem more prescient is probably a good thing, seeing how far we've diverged from what was viewed as a reasonable timeline (from a 1968 perspective).
Is the south pole the right place for a lunar base? thespacereview.com/article/5…
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This gets me wondering where Denis Villeneuve's Rendezvous with Rama big screen adaptation stands?
Grab your high-lumen flashlight and gargantuan gun to explore these vicious vessels space.com/entertainment/9-ni…
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SpaceX is fueling up Ship 42 for a 2nd static fire test late this afternoon...
youtube.com/watch?v=C0lC4tb1…
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Here's a novel idea - have individual NASA feeds for each of these active surface missions.
Oh darn, they once had their own feeds - dang, seemed like a pretty good idea...👀
Follow along with Perseverance as it continues its deep dive into the story of Mars, exploring some of the oldest rocks ever encountered on Mars or Earth. science.nasa.gov/mission/mar…
ALT The rover’s robotic arm casts a shadow on a desert floor of reddish rocks and soil.
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Hopefully, everything is going according to mission plan - I'm very much pulling for this plucky new sample return mission:)
[Press Release]
Launch result of the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft aboard H3 Launch Vehicle flight No.10
global.jaxa.jp/press/2026/10…
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3 hours ago, but YT has archived it (with english translation:)
Live Coverage
Pre-Launch Briefing : Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft / H3 Launch Vehicle flight No.10
Broadcast Start: 14:00 (JST) on October 18, 2026
* The live broadcast schedule may be subject to change.
youtube.com/live/_E45z5AtwzE
I've always liked Distant Suns...
There are plenty of stargazing apps out there and if you want to make the most of them we've got you covered. space.com/stargazing/skywatc…
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9 hours old now, but MMX is a very ambitious mission headed out to Mars. The plan is to land on and collect samples from its moon, Phobos. The hope is to then return the collected samples back to labs here on Earth.
LIVE: Tune in as agency leaders and partners discuss NASA's contributions to @JAXA_en's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, scheduled to lift off on Monday, Oct. 19. youtu.be/3k2mpWrOD1s
ALT The blue NASA "meatball" insignia overlaid on top of a Martian background.
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Drove SE of Dallas for many miles for darker skies and saw the comet - a very small comma shaped wisp in the sky (I really needed binoculars to spot it). Took some photos with a 50mm lens and a slower zoom. They were not terribly impressive (Hale-Bopp was much better in 1997):
What disappointed skywatchers in 1986 became a scientific triumph, as an international fleet of spacecraft revealed the secrets of the world's most famous comet. space.com/stargazing/the-gre…
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