Category Archives: Space

Sci-fi Fantasy Cabinet Cards- Talk about embarrassing family photos!

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Anne Crumpacker

Just to get you in the mood for our Sci-fi Book Club… Artist Alex Gross takes old cabinet cards from the late 1800′s and re-imagines them as contemporary superheroes (keeping the original face and a few other details) or uses them … Continue reading →

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Get Me Outta Here!

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Anne Crumpacker

NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count. Ten of … Continue reading →

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Next Stop Mars!

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Anne Crumpacker

Yesterday, while we were out shopping NASA launched from Cape Canaveral the “biggest and baddest robot ever to land on another planet: an SUV-sized rover nicknamed “Curiosity” that comes equipped with a “rock-zapping” laser.” According to the Orlando Sentinel: [...] … Continue reading →

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