The Inventor of the Space Camera Died Last Wednesday

Recognize that downright iconic image at right?  Well, if you do, you're not alone, and you're one of the literaly millions of people out there who needs to spare a thought for a man named Stanley Lebar Lebar, you see, designed the TV camera that the Apollo mission folks took with them in orbit back in ...

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The Hubble Caught The LCROSS Bombing

Now here's a quick dose of awesome for you this morning, folks: apparently, the Hubble Telescope, that former laughingstock turned invaluable contribution to science forever, caught the LCROSS...bombing?  Landing?  What WOULD you call it, exactly? Well, anyway, the Hubble caught it, and apparently it even managed to generate a pic or two.  Sadly, we don't actually ...

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MIT Students Make Space Camera For A Hundred And Fifty Bucks

Man, you've got to love those crazy kids at MIT...what won't they do next? What they did do  this time around was show up NASA like there was no tomorrow.  While the beleaguered space agency is whining and complaining about how they can't get enough money, a group of kids at MIT is blowing them out ...

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