Alex Martin
SSC team members and guests visit Kennedy Space Center for the first SSC retreat
by Alex Martin, Executive Director July 31, 2024 This expedition was funded using contributions from our donors and small cash donations...
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Alex Martin
- Jul 11
- 8 min
SSC turns 6 years old today
by Alex Martin Executive Director Click here to make a tax-deductible donation. July 11, 2024 - I'm an author by nature. I've been...
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Alex Martin
- Apr 14
- 6 min
Witnessing cosmic geometry over Batesville, Indiana
by Alex Martin, Executive Director April 14, 2024 There is no stopping Totality. If we want to experience it, then we must chase it....
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Alex Martin
- Mar 21
- 6 min
2017: My first Total Solar Eclipse
by Alex Martin, Executive Director March 21, 2024 Believe it or not, I wasn't as into science 15 years ago as I am these days; I always...
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Alex Martin
- Mar 6
- 3 min
SSC is now a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
by Alex Martin, Executive Director March 6, 2024 In January 2018, my job at the Oglethorpe Mall in Savannah, Georgia got shut down. In my...
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Alex Martin
- Feb 25
- 3 min
On February 22nd, the United States landed its first spacecraft on the Moon in 52 years
It marks the first in a series of missions to aid the Artemis program and other science missions for uncrewed exploration and crewed...
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Alex Martin
- Feb 8
- 5 min
In January 2024, an asteroid exploded over West Berlin
..,and we didn't see it coming until 95 minutes before. by Alex Martin Executive Director February 8, 2024 @ 1:00pm EST Searching for...
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Alex Martin
- Jan 20
- 3 min
NASA JPL officially decommissions Ingenuity, the first interplanetary helicopter, ending its 3-year mission on Mars
by Alex Martin, Executive Director www.sidewalksciencecenter.org January 20, 2024 This story was originally published under the title...
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Alex Martin
- Jan 3
- 3 min
End of 2023 Year-in-Review
by Alex Martin, Executive Director SSC at Crater Lake, Oregon on October 14, 2023, in hopes of catching the Annular Solar Eclipse from...
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Alex Martin
- Nov 15, 2023
- 3 min
Saturn's rings are disappearing...according to misleading headlines
Above: Saturn as viewed through Sidewalk Science Center's Celestron NexStar 4SE telescope on September 13, 2023 by Alex Martin, Executive...
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Alex Martin
- Jul 27, 2023
- 1 min
We have submitted our application for 501(c)(3) federal exemption status
by Alex Martin Executive Director www.sidewalksciencecenter.org Sidewalk Science Center recently celebrated its 5 year anniversary. We...
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Alex Martin
- Jul 12, 2023
- 4 min
Memories after 5 years of Sidewalk Science Center
by Alex Martin Executive Director www.sidewalksciencecenter.org Those days of standing on the sidewalks of Savannah, Georgia, seem like a...
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Alex Martin
- Jul 2, 2023
- 7 min
Will a solar flare knock out the internet for months or years?
by Alex Martin Executive Director, Sidewalk Science Center www.sidewalksciencecenter.org A recent report from a study that focused on...
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Alex Martin
- Jun 16, 2023
- 10 min
Human connection: the key element of education
by Alex Martin Executive Director, Sidewalk Science Center www.sidewalksciencecenter.org When you visit a science center, there's often a...
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Alex Martin
- Jun 8, 2023
- 5 min
Venus enters its 2023 Grand Finale
All image models of the solar system in this post were created using the software on www.solarsystemscope.com An Introduction to Venus...
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Alex Martin
- May 23, 2023
- 2 min
The first SSC Expedition: we're documenting an eclipse!
On August 21, 2017, the eclipse that crossed the United States became the most witnessed Total Solar Eclipse in history. I traveled to...
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Alex Martin
- Sep 27, 2022
- 1 min
Sidewalk Science Center goes nonprofit
Formed as a small program in Savannah, Georgia back in July 2018, Sidewalk Science Center operated as the flagship program of Experience...
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