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TheRepubic.com

China To Recruit Civilian Astronauts, Boost Crewed Missions

Published 4th March 2018



China will begin recruiting civilian astronauts for its military-backed space program and plans to increase the number of crewed missions to around two a year, a top official with the country’s space program said.

China’s third batch of astronaut trainees will include recruits from industry, research institutions and universities who will help build and crew China’s independent space station, Yang Liwei, deputy director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office, told reporters on the sidelines of the annual session of China’s ceremonial parliament.

Read all about it here: http://www.therepublic.com/2018/03/04/as-china-space/

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AstronomyNow.com

See Bright Near-Earth Asteroid 2017 VR12 Pass Close To Star Spica, 7–8th March

Published 4th March 2018



Believed to be 220–490 metres in size, Apollo asteroid 2017 VR12 passes just 3.76 lunar distances from Earth at 07:53 UT (7:53am GMT) on 7 March. Discovered by Pan-STARRS 1 in Hawaii on 10 November 2017, 2017 VR12 orbits the Sun once every 1.6 years. The asteroid should exceed magnitude +12 near closest approach, making it a viable target for 10-cm (4-inch) telescopes and larger

Read all about it here: https://astronomynow.com/2018/03/04/...ica-7-8-march/

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HeraldScotland.com

New Drugs Could Make Astronauts More Resistant To Cosmic Rays That Cause Cancer During Missions To Mars

Published 4th March 2018



Scientists are set to reveal new drugs which could make astronauts more resistant to cancer-causing space radiation during lengthy missions to Mars.

Entrepreneur Elon Musk hopes to send humans to the Red Planet by 2022 but there are fears about the effect of exposure to cosmic rays over the course of the journey, which will take at least nine months.

Beyond Earth's protective magnetic shield, space-travelling humans are subjected to stronger radiation which puts astronauts at significant risk of radiation sickness, and an increased lifetime risk of developing cancer and degenerative diseases.

Read all about it here: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/1...g_cosmic_rays/

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For anyone interested I’m sharing this detailed and well referenced in-depth analysis of a not so well-known NASA image from the 1969 Apollo 12 mission, written by natural scientist and author James DeMeo (last revision 2009).

http://www.orgonelab.org/astronautblues.htm

The Blue-Glowing Astronauts:

„Shortly after the November 1969 Apollo 12 mission to the moon had returned back to Earth, Life Magazine published on the front cover of it's 12 December 1969 issue, a striking photo of astronaut Alan Bean walking on the Lunar surface, with a brilliant blue-glowing energy field enveloping him. That spectacular photo -- reproduced below and taken by fellow astronaut Charles Conrad using a hand-held 70mm Hasselblad film camera -- created quite a stir of interest, not only regarding the Apollo program itself, but also as to the nature of the mysterious blue glow. I remember seeing that photo as a teen. Years later, I came across the photo in a set of NASA space-program images sold commercially, and later still a friend gave me a used copy of that original Life Magazine issue. Below I reproduce the central portions of that same photograph, obtained from NASA archives.“


NASA Image AS12-46-6826 from the Apollo 12 Mission.

What caused this blue glow?

Solar Glare? Lunar Dust? Water Vapor? Camera Lens Smudges? Or an expression of the Lunar Plasma Atmosphere interacting with the RF/Electrically-Excited Human Orgone (Life) Energy Field?

Why are these two blue-glowing astronaut photos so rare. Why only two?

There is very clear evidence that some of the blue colors photographed on the lunar surface were "unexpected", and later removed or "photoshopped" out of these photos before they were posted to internet for public viewing.




* Wikipedia says:
„They carried the first color television camera to the lunar surface on an Apollo flight, but transmission was lost after Bean accidentally destroyed the camera by pointing it at the Sun.“
„The astronauts also took photographs, although by accident Bean left several rolls of exposed film on the lunar surface“

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Space.com

On This Day In Space | 4th March 1979 | Jupiter's Rings Discovered

Published 4th March 2018

On March 4, 1979, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first photos of rings around Jupiter. This was the first time anyone had seen Jupiter’s rings. Because the rings are so thin and faint, it's extremely difficult to see them from Earth with ground-based telescopes. Even for a spacecraft out near Jupiter, the rings essentially invisible unless the cameras look at them edge-on or from an angle where sunlight shines directly through them. Since Voyager 1 first saw the rings, other space missions like Juno and Galileo have continued to study them. Scientists believe that the rings formed by comets colliding with Jupiter's moons and kicking dust into the planet's orbit.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fiNjT0DddW4

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ECETI Stargate



As You Wish Talk Radio

Ranch Round-Up!

Published 4th March 2018

James is back from his sickbed to round up the news Earthly & Exopolitical...

Listen here

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Connecting Consciousness Show

Q&A With Simon Parkes

Recorded & Published 4th March 2018

Simon answers your selected questions

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MoslWaEy_4E

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The Paracast



Joshua Cutchin & J. Randall Murphy

Published 4th March 2018

Gene and guest cohost J. Randall Murphy present Fortean/paranormal researcher Joshua Cutchin. who takes us on a fascinating journey through the nooks and crannies of the world of the paranormal, folklore and the frontiers of consciousness. Among the cases discussed, the curious UFO contact from 1961 involving chicken farmer Joe Simonton, who claims to have been presented with bad-tasting buckwheat pancakes from short swarthy aliens in a flying saucer, a story that has never been explained. Joshua is the author of two books: 2015's "A Trojan Feast: The Food and Drink Offerings of Aliens, Faeries, and Sasquatch." and 2016's "The Brimstone Deceit: An In-Depth Examination of Supernatural Scents, Otherworldly Odors, & Monstrous Miasmas." He is also author of the forthcoming, “Thieves In The Night: Paranormal Child Abduction From the Faerie Faith to the UFO Era."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=abH2SJ3dOzM

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John Michael Godier

10 Reasons Aliens Might Invade Earth

Published 3rd March 2018

An exploration of scenarios within scientific possibility of why aliens might choose to invade earth.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OXTHTLnviLU

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Somewhere In The Skies

Episode Thirty Four | Witness Accounts : Volume One

Published 4th December 2017

In this episode listeners take the front seat, recalling their personal UFO sightings. It's a collection of some of the most vivid and mysterious personal UFO accounts that Ryan has come across, strengthening the fact that the witnesses of UFO events remain & Is the most important piece of this deeply enigmatic puzzle.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=59NTUi7kLUg

Somewhere In The Skies

Episode Thirty Six | Witness Accounts : Volume Two

Published 4th March 2018

On episode 46 of SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES, listeners recount their personal UFO sightings in this second installment of witness accounts. From strange lights in the sky to possible encounters with beings outside a window. From orbs begging to be seen to strange spherical objects surrounding a driver and his wife. This episode dives deep into just how bizarre, scary, beautiful, and life-altering a UFO encounter can truly be.

Several individuals requested anonymity in this episode. Those who didn't use their real names. Thank you to all who sent in their accounts.

More episodes like this will be available in the future, but only with your help. If you'd like to recount your own personal sighting or encounter, use the contact tab at the website to discuss further.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NJzN3AFlTcw

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UFO Planet

UFO Sightings Submissions Compilation #107 | 26th February to 4th March 2018

Published 4th March 2018

The most recent UFO images and videos submitted for investigation from:

MUFON 90433 Wheeling, WV, USA 2017-08-21
MUFON 90438 Lowell, MA, USA 2018-02-26
MUFON 90442 Tampa, FL, USA 2018-02-25
MUFON 90460 Cascais, PT 2012-05-30
MUFON 90496 Naples, FL, USA 2018-02-28
MUFON 90502 Woodstock, IL, USA 2018-02-26
MUFON 90503 Marysville, WA, USA 2018-03-01
MUFON 90523 Dearborn Heights, MI, USA 2018-03-02
MUFON 90552 Baltimore, MD, USA 2017-10-24
MUFON 90555 London, UK 2018-01-16

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OZNV34o-EDA

Livestream of all of 2018's submissions:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6ZTCpY4OZgE

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Ever Beyond Radio

Interviews Alex Collier

Published 4th March 2018

Jaypee is joined by Alex to discuss everything from here to Andromeda plus he answers selected questions.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sPikg0HPUUU

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Nemesis Maturity

Spectacular Celestial Events & Rare Blue Moon - March Night Sky Wonders

Published 5th March 2018

The March night sky offers dazzling views of the 5 bright planets, the Moon and many other celestial objects you can see without the help of any special equipment but with just your eyes.

Blue Moon
March 31, 2018 presents the second and final Blue Moon of the year. It’s quite rare to have two Blue Moons in a single calendar year. It last happened in 1999 and won’t happen again until 2037.
Read more here: http://earthsky.org/?p=273806

Planets
Both Venus and Mercury play the part of "evening stars" this month. At the beginning of the month they appear low on the western horizon. The moon itself joins the pair from March 18th through the 20th. The moon skims by the Pleiades star cluster and Taurus's bright red star Aldebaran on the next few evenings, March 21 through the 23rd.

Jupiter, king of the planets, rises just before midnight this month, and earlier by month end. Even through the smallest telescope or average binoculars, you should see the 4 Galilean moons, Europa, Io, Callisto and Ganymede.

The March morning sky offers dazzling views of Mars and Saturn all month long. Through a telescope, you can almost make out some of the surface features on Mars. Keep watching Mars as it travels closer to Earth. It will be closest in late July, when the red planet will appear larger in apparent diameter than it has since 2003!

https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/jpl/whats-up-march-2018

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LXV5kYzlUVE

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Space.com

On This Day In Space | 5th March 1982 | Soviet Space Probe Lands On Venus

Published 5th March 2018

On March 5, 1982, the Soviet Union's Venera 14 spacecraft landed on Venus! Venera 14 launched just five days after its identical twin, Venera 13. Both space probes spent four months traveling to Venus, and Venera 13 arrived a few days earlier. Venera 14 parachuted down to the surface of Venus and collected data on the atmosphere the whole way down. It landed about 600 miles away from Venera 13 and started beaming back images from the surface of Venus — but not for long. The high pressure and temperature at Venus killed Venera 14 in under an hour.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=et-g3MPn7Yw

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Suspicious Observers News | 5th March 2018 | Filament Erupts, 1 On Watch, Earthquakes & News, Conference, More News

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6s8gVt0HPW4

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HDtdM5-ksXU

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European Southern Observatory

First Light For MATISSE

Published 5th March 2018

A new study has found that the seven planets orbiting the nearby ultra-cool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 are all made mostly of rock, and some could potentially hold more water than Earth. The planets' densities, now known much more precisely than before, suggest that some of them could have up to 5 percent of their mass in the form of water — about 250 times more than Earth's oceans

The new MATISSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has now successfully made its first observations at the Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. MATISSE is the most powerful interferometric instrument in the world at mid-infrared wavelengths. It will use high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy to probe the regions around young stars where planets are forming as well as the regions around supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies.

This selection of video clips shows the installation of the instrument at Paranal and the team during the first light observations.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gd4GhnXfF3w

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TMRO



Orbit 11.09 | Max Haot | Introducing LAUNCHER

Published 5th March 2018

Max Haot of LAUNCHER joins us to talk about their new rocket company LAUNCHER. We talk about their current tests, 3D printing rocket engines and plans for the future.

Launches:
H-2A Rocket launches Japanese Reconnaissance Satellite
Atlas V Launches GOES-S Weather Satellite

News:
Dark matter in the cosmic dawn
ISS Crew Return to Earth
Proxima centauri had a bad day

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=U5Ze75nn72M

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Scientific American.com

Should We Open Some Sealed Moon Samples?

Published 5th March 2018



Between 1969 and 1972, Apollo astronauts brought back to Earth a total of nine containers of moon material that were sealed on the lunar surface.
Two of the larger sealed samples were collected by Apollo 17 moonwalkers in December 1972. Three sealed samples from Apollo 15, 16 and 17 remain unopened.
According to several key lunar researchers, now is the right time to consider opening at least one of the still-sealed sample containers.

Read all about it here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-moon-samples/

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PBS Arizona Public Media

Global Telescope Array Peering Into Space For First Glimpse Of Black Hole

Published 5th March 2018



You can't see a black hole. At least not yet. They form after the collapse of massive stars, and their gravitational waves have been sensed by observatories in Louisiana and Washington state. But astronomers are anxious to know what they look like.

Researchers from the University of Arizona are part of the international team hoping to take the first image of the black hole that's in the center of the Milky Way galaxy and another black hole 53 million light years away, in the M87 galaxy.

Read all about it here: https://news.azpm.org/p/news-topical...of-black-hole/

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Phys.org

'Warm Saturn' Exoplanet Discovered By Astronomers

Published 5th March 2018



Using data from NASA's prolonged Kepler mission, known as K2, astronomers have found a new "warm Saturn" exoplanet. The newly discovered alien world, named EPIC 247098361 b, is similar in mass to Saturn, but much hotter. The finding is reported February 24 in a paper published on arXiv.org.
The new extrasolar world was first spotted by K2 as a planetary candidate during the spacecraft's Campaign 13 between March and May 2017, when it obtained the light curve of the star EPIC 247098361. In order to confirm the planetary status of the newly identified object, a team of astronomers led by Rafael Brahm of the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics in Chile has carried out follow-up observations using ground-based telescopes at ESO La Silla Observatory in Chile.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2018-03-saturn...tronomers.html