An Asteroid Mining Test Vehicle Just Launched From The Space Station
Arkyd 3 Reflight Deploys From The ISSNASA via Planetary ResourcesPlanetary Resources, a company that wants to mine asteroids for precious materials, has just launched a demonstration vehicle to test...
View ArticleA New Crew Heads To Space Station To Harvest Space Crops
Video of Expedition 44 Launches to the Space StationExpedition 44 launched from Kazakhstan around 5 p.m. ET on Wednesday and arrived at the International Space Station at 10:45 p.m. ET. It takes more...
View ArticleGenetics Experiment Will Be First Chinese Project On Space Station
The International Space StationPhoto credit NASA via Wikimedia CommonsNASA is not allowed to do business with Chinese scientists. That’s according to a 2011 ban that makes the scientific endeavor to...
View ArticleMoustachioed Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield Recorded A Whole Album In Space
Space ProdigyScreenshot by author, from YouTubeCanada’s Chris Hadfield is a global treasure. During his time on board the International Space Station, he tweeted us pictures of the Earth, taught us how...
View ArticleHow Do Plants Grow In Zero Gravity?
NASA, CC BYAstronaut Cady Coleman harvests one of our plants on Space Shuttle Columbia
View ArticleWatch Astronauts Harvest And Eat The First Space-Grown Salad
Selfie taken by Astronaut Scott Kelly with Space Station-Grown LettuceScott Kelly/Twitter/NASAUpdate, 11:35am: Although the space lettuce tasting was originally scheduled for 11:15 am EDT, a spacewalk...
View ArticleSpace-Grown Lettuce Tastes "Awesome," Astronauts Say
Three Astronauts Try The First Space-Grown LettuceNASA LivestreamNASA has been growing lettuce on the space station since May 2014, and today, astronauts finally got to test the fruits of their labors....
View ArticleResults Are In: Space Whisky Tastes "Noticeably Different"
Bill Lumsden, Head DistillerArdbegA space research company called NanoRacks approached Scottish whisky distillery Ardbeg to participate in a very special expedition. In 2011, the two companies sent...
View ArticleHow NASA Turned Astronauts Into Social Media Superstars
The Aurora Borealis as NASA astronaut, Scott Kelly sees it from the International Space Station.@StationCDRKellyThis is the Aurora Borealis as Scott Kelly sees it from the International Space Station....
View ArticleWatch Astronauts Create Colored Orbs Of Water On The ISS
Video of RED 4K Video of Colorful Liquid in SpaceWe showed you what it looks like when astronauts dissolve an antacid tablet in a floating ball of water.Now, they've taken it a step further, making...
View ArticleThe Red Weapon 6K Camera Shoots For The Stars
Red Weapon Dragon 6KBryan EdwardsWhat does a Hollywood legend like James Cameron have in common with a bunch of scientists on the International Space Station? They all use Red cameras to capture...
View ArticleWhat Do You Listen To During A Year In Space?
Astronaut Scott Kelly—twin brother to Mark and current commander of the International Space Station's Expedition 45 crew—has now spent more than 380 days consecutively in space, and holds the record...
View ArticleNASA Posts New Photos Of Last Year’s Orbital Sciences Rocket Explosion To Flickr
Just seconds after liftoff on October 28, 2014, an Orbital Sciences rocket exploded, destroying 5,000 pounds of space station supplies. No one was onboard, thankfully, but the blast took out part of...
View ArticleHow Many Years Does The Space Station Have Left?
Construction of the ISSNASASTS-116 astronauts installed part of the space station's main backbone in 2006.In the movie The Martian, a stranded astronaut is able to survive for years in a habitat that...
View ArticleTomorrow, Watch A Live Spacewalk On NASA TV
ISS Solar ArrayNASAHow long does it take to get a broken cooling system back to normal? If it's on the International Space Station (ISS), it might take three years.On Friday, astronauts Scott Kelly and...
View ArticleWhat Are You Doing For Thanksgiving?: Scott Kelly And Kjell Lindgren
Scott Kelly and Kjell LindgrenNASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren demonstrate what foods they'll be eating for Thanksgiving.NASA JohnsonNASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren are...
View ArticleAstronauts Are Getting Augmented Reality Headsets This Week
Project SidekickNASA employees test the HoloLens in weightless conditions.NASAVirtual and augmented reality devices have slowly edged their way into our lives, popping up on headsets and in cars. Now,...
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