Yesterday, when it was early morning in the USA, Facebook started having problems. Suddenly it became impossible to update your status or write anything in groups and pages and even use the “Like” function. Soon, on other social networks, mainly Twitter, messages were posted showing panic but also irony and #facebookdown was very trendy among the hashtags. After a few hours the fault was fixed and the situation slowly went back to normal.
The novel “The Moon Is Hell” by John W. Campbell, Jr. was published for the first time in 1950.
An expedition of astronauts on the Moon is about to end after about two years but the starship that was supposed to bring them back to Earth has an accident and crashes, leaving the astronauts with little hope of survival. The oxygen and food are available in limited quantities and before a rescue expedition could reach the Moon several months will pass.
NASA’s Cassini space probe has taken a lot of pictures of the planet Saturn and its rings. It’s a show that keeps on fascinating us and Gordan Ugarkovic, a Croatian member of the UnmannedSpaceflight.com group, has brought together 36 photographs available in the Cassini mission archive to create a complete image of the planet as seen from its north pole, with its rings in evidence.
