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Man who went to the Moon in the 60s, Buzz Aldrin marries again at 93
Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, a US astronaut who took part in the illustrious Apollo 11 mission that touched down on the Moon in 1969, made his entrance down the aisle on his 93rd birthday. He has been married four times.
Aldrin tweeted on Saturday that the previous day, he and his “longtime love Dr. Anca Faur” had “tied the knot.” In a tiny, private ceremony in Los Angeles,...
No 1 Career Choice For American Kids is YouTubers, for Chinese Kids is Astronauts
A new study by Harris found that the number one career choice for American kids is to become a YouTuber, while the number one choice for Chinese children is to become an astronaut.
Participants were asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
29% of American kids said they wanted to become a YouTuber, while 30% of children in the UK said the same thing.
However, in China, 56% wanted to become...
Astronaut snaps bizarre Sahara "eye" desert formation
A stunning image showing off the wondrous spirals of the ‘Eye of Africa’, also known as the Richat structure, has been captured by French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
The incredible structure, located in the Sahara desert in Mauritania, has a diameter of 50km (31 miles) and was originally thought to be a meteorite-impact crater. Scientists now believe,...
Hillary Blames Sexism For Bernie Surge
Crooked Hillary Clinton is once again blaming “sexism” for why she can’t beat Crazy Bernie Sanders despite promising to drop the “sexist” labeling recently. Apparently she just can’t help herself from calling men “sexists”.
In a New York magazine interview out this week, Clinton claimed people are telling her, “I really admire you, I really like you, I just don’t...
Gagarin's death: Obvious mystery
Forty-five years ago, on March 27, 1968, during a training flight on a standard fighter, Yuri Gagarin, the first man in history to make a flight into space, was killed. It seems that the official results of the investigation into the death of the cosmonaut were announced long time ago, but various (sometimes very questionable) theories of the tragic event still continue to emerge.
Gagarin’s...
Neil Armstrong dies, his legend lives
Astronaut Neil Armstrong, who in 1969 became the first person in the world to set foot on the Moon, died in the United States.
In early August, 82-year-old Armstrong received surgery to reduce the clogging of coronary arteries. Today, the family of the legendary astronaut said that he died due to post-surgery complications.
U.S. President Barack Obama made a statement in connection with astronaut’s...
Earth from the International Space Station as never seen before
Kuipers inside the Space Station. The Dutch astronaut is one of the most prolific photographers on the ISS
An astronaut on the International Space Station has designed a ‘tripod’ for taking spectacular night-time pictures of Earth – quite a technical feat when you’re on board an orbiting craft that moves at more than four miles a second.
Andre Kuipers installed ‘Nightpod’...