All the stories tagged with space
Astronaut Records First Original Song Composition In Space
12/25/2012, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is the first person to record an original song composition in space. Hadfield, who is currently training as the commander of Expedition 35, made a promise earlier this month on Reddit to record a song while on [...]
NASA Using LED Lights To Cure Insomnia In Space
12/21/2012, Being an astronaut is no easy job. But the job gets tougher when insomnia strikes in. Astronauts usually get around six hours of sleep, but the hectic and demanding schedule due to the unusual environment increases the factors that contribute [...]
NASA’s Z-1 Prototype Spacesuit Is Beginning To Look More Like Buzz Lightyear
12/19/2012, NASA has finished testing its Z-1 prototype spacesuit. The Z-1 spacesuit, which was first revealed in July, was praised for its versatility. Today, we are looking at the rough final design of the prototype. Judging from the image above, which [...]
NASA To Crash ‘Ebb and Flow’ Probes Into The Moon
12/13/2012, In what appears to be a worthy resting place for NASA’s probes, the space agency is announcing today that it will smash Ebb and Flow – NASA’s two tiny probes – into the Moon. NASA says that the probes will [...]
Enjoy A Moon Holiday By 2020
12/06/2012, So you have brought your family for a holiday across all six continents on the earth, and are wondering just where would your next vacation be. Well, I guess it would make sense if you were to literally aim for [...]
NASA Reveals Amazing ‘Black Marble’ Night Images Of Planet Earth
12/06/2012, Watching our wonderful planet Earth from afar never looked this good. Behold! You are looking at an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. The scientists at NASA recently published these beautiful cloud-free night images of Earth taken from [...]
Japan’s LED-set cubesat will flash Morse code from space
10/05/2012, We reported earlier about the tiny Japanese satellite termed ‘FITSAT-1‘ by the researchers. This palm-sized satellite was earlier carried to the International Space Station. The original plan was to release FITSAT-1 to orbit the Earth and flash Morse code in [...]
Boeing patents unique idea about removing space debris
10/05/2012, The sky at clear nights is usually a beautiful sight, lit with all those stars and other heavenly bodies. However, in real, it may not be all that heavenly, given the sheer amount of debris that is floating around in [...]
Comet headed towards Earth discovered by anstronomers
10/01/2012, When 2012 started, there were many who found it a rather indulgent pastime to frequently deem the Mayan calendar as the ultimate proof that this was the last year which this Earth may witness. And that before the end of [...]
Curiosity finds evidence of water on Mars
09/28/2012, Curiosity, truly living up to its name, has been crawling all over the red planet, trying to sniff out the faintest signs of life that Mars may have. The rover has been at Mars for a while and is already [...]
NASA aims to build a base on moon
09/25/2012, Human bases built on other planets is a routine happening – at least as far as the realm of science fiction is concerned. But so far, there hasn’t been a real base put out there in a heavenly body by [...]
Thor Hammer inspires NASA project for satellite deployment
09/17/2012, We are quite sure that Chris Hemsworth has endeared himself to many people with his portrayal of Thor in the Avengers as well as his first Marvel movie, Thor. After all, who would want to turn down god-like powers not [...]
Japanese FITSAT-1 satellites can write Morse code messages in the sky
07/27/2012, While the whole world is too occupied and busy with their own lives, the Japanese unmanned H-2 Transfer Vehicle-3 that was launched last week, is poised to arrive at the International Space Station today, Friday – just in time for [...]
