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Friday, December 05, 2025

Tag: space exploration

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Curiosity Rover’s 1.8 Billion-pixel panorama of Mars

ward 10/03/2020

Recently, while all the NASA types were on holiday, the Mars Curiosity Rover got bored and took a panorama. You can’t really blame it, it went to Mars on a … Read More

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Returning to the moon and the motives behind it

ward 20/07/2019

Fifty years ago, humans set foot on the moon. It was, and still is, the most incredible thing to have done and unlike the vast majority of things we smart … Read More

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VR Apollo 11 experience PS4

ward 22/08/2017

There are some interactive elements – such as docking (fairly easy) and landing (fairly impossible) – but this is essentially a documentary experience.

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Musk to Mars, and Beyond!

ward 03/10/2016

Recently, Elon Musk talked about going to Mars. He wants humanity to be a multi-planetary species, so that we should survive a disaster. (Hopefully some other animals too – I want … Read More

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Tribute to Voyager space program is damn inspiring

ward 29/06/2016

Here is an amazing video made by a talented fellow called Santiago Menghini. It’s a tribute to NASA’s Voyager space program and combines real footage, recorded sounds, Voyager images, animation and more, into a very cool little film.

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Welcome back Tim Peake

ward 20/06/2016

Here at the Word of Ward we are unanimous in our support of space exploration, ESA, NASA and the brave people who go into space in the quest for knowledge. … Read More

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4 minute video of Space X launches is damned inspiring

ward 16/04/2016

(Feel free to skip my rant and just see the clip at the bottom. I apologise in advance.) I’m not going to tiptoe around this – we should go into … Read More

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The Sound of Space – Voyager has left the system.

ward 16/09/2013

Voyager 1 was launched in September 1977, 36 years ago. I was 5 years old and it has remained an awe inspiring achievement throughout my life.

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Deep Space Industries

ward 27/01/2013

This fanciful dreaming has been inspired by the science-fiction-sounding Deep Space Industries.

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