The Time website just came out with a cool photo essay about animals in space. The photo essay is supposed to commemorate NASA’s fiftieth anniversary, but I’m more interested in the animals themselves.
Are they heroes? Pioneers? Hapless experimental test subjects?
The handful of images including the one above may not suffice to reach a conclusion, but […]
The Time Magazine website’s just posted up a supercool slideshow about meteorites and the damage they’ve caused on earth. Some pretty awesome pictures there, but the real fascination comes from the strong reminder the photos present that when it comes to cataclysmic meteor strikes on earth, it’s not a question of “if” but “when”.
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Picture this: You really need to go, you’re in a really small room with only one toilet, and it’s broken.
And you’re in outer space.
This is what’s happening in the International Space Station, whose one and only (Russian-built) zero-gravity urine collection system has been having problems of late.
Thankfully the recent Discovery shuttle mission includes the delivery […]
Nadezhda, whose name in Russian means Hope, was a cockroach. She was taken up into space on an orbiting laboratory with the appropriately sci-fi-sounding name of Foton-M, where she conceived last September.
Her little baby roach-onauts were the first roaches conceived in outer space. They were said to have matured at a faster rate than normal.
And […]
54 year old Jeff Peckman wants his city council to set up an 18-member commission for the purpose of dealing with the presence of space aliens on this planet.
Peckman will make his proposal at next week’s “review and comment” meeting. He would then need to collect four thousand signatures in order to get his proposal […]
It all began with a curious champion.
World boomerang champion Yasuhiro Togai wanted to know if boomerangs worked in outer space, so he gave a bunch of paper boomerangs to Takao Doi, an astronaut with the Japanese equivalent of NASA.
Doi took the paper boomerangs with him on his next trip to the International Space Station and […]