Tag: Bill Nye
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Buzz Aldrin and Bill Nye the Science Guy turn into shiny objects for New York’s 2035 fashion show
Bill Nye the Science Guy joins forces with Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin at a New York fashion show. (Buzz Aldrin via Twitter) To be a fashionable geek is usually a contradiction of terms, but Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin and Bill Nye (“the Science Guy”) pulled it off during New York Men’s Fashion Week.…
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LightSail hailed as precursor for low-cost planetary missions
A camera aboard LightSail took this picture of the deployed solar sail. Credit: The Planetary Society Managers in charge of the privately-funded LightSail solar sail in Earth orbit said Wednesday the success of the experiment is a step toward opening up the solar system to scores of modest science probes that could explore space at…
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LightSail spacecraft reboots in orbit: ‘It’s alive!’ says Bill Nye
Photo via Kickstarter/LightSail/Bill Nye The Planetary Society’s LightSail spacecraft has rebooted and resumed communications with its team on Earth after a software glitch threatened the mission of the light-catching sail. Here’s the official statement from Bill Nye, the Planetary Society’s CEO: “Our LightSail called home! It’s alive! Our LightSail spacecraft has rebooted itself, just as our engineers…
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Have you tried restarting? Bill Nye’s LightSail needs a reboot due to software glitch
An artist rendition of what the LightSail will look like if it can be deployed Update, Saturday evening: LightSail spacecraft reboots in orbit: ‘It’s alive!’ says Bill Nye A glitch with a spreadsheet file has caused Bill Nye’s LightSail satellite to stop responding. With no communication, the Planetary Society may have to wait for a cosmic…
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Citizen-funded CubeSat ready to go solar sailing
Credit: Josh Spradling / The Planetary Society A shoebox-sized satellite conceived and funded by members of the Planetary Society, an advocacy organization co-founded by Carl Sagan, is fastened to an Atlas 5 rocket for launch Wednesday to test one of the late celebrity-astronomer’s futuristic concepts for exploring the cosmos. Sagan and other proponents of solar…
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‘Science Guy’ Bill Nye is back with new series, explaining NASA’s mission to Jupiter
If you want to know about Earth’s next visitor to Jupiter, a familiar face with a familiar bow tie is here to help. That’s right, Bill Nye is back talking science (now that he’s been booted from Dancing with the Stars) to explain what NASA’s up to with its Juno mission to Jupiter. The probe,…
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Bill Nye and Star Trek’s ‘Data’ helping asteroid miners with ‘unprecedented’ new project
Planetary Resources is on a mission to mine near-earth asteroids and now they want you to join in on the fun, too. The Bellevue-based asteroid-mining company backed by some of the biggest names in technology and aerospace will hold a press conference this Wednesday to announce a new, “unprecedented project” intended to give the public access to its advanced space…