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My internship at NASA Ames – What is NASA

Last month, the New Zealand Government – The New Zealand Space Agency together with the US Embassy have announced four scholarships at NASA Ames, the same place I have been in 2014. There were media outlets in New Zealand that publicised this as an astronaut training opportunity, but this internship is no astronaut training school although it might lead to becoming one. This, and the knowledge that you don’t need to be an astronaut to work in the space industry, prompted me to want to share from my experience at NASA and give an overview of what to realistically expect from these internships.

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Open Sesame April

Just like “Open sesame”, “Open April” is a pleonasm but we might have forgotten it is because the word April was invented long ago and far, far away, all the way to the other side of the world in Ancient Rome.

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Debunking Some Myths About The Moon

We often give the Moon magical properties it simply does not have. The amount of illumination it provides changes and that’s about it.

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Leaplings: is all Sosigenes’ fault

Happy Birthday Leaplings! As they are affectionately known, leaplings navigate a world where their official birthdays come only once every four years. Why did this happen and whose fault is it?

Pictures from space are fascinating, but what am I looking at?

Images of objects in space are often coloured to help astronomers work out what’s going on. This post looks at what we can work out.

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