Jasmine Moghbeli has had an illustrious career. Moghbeli earned her nickname ‘Jaws’ for being a helicopter gunship pilot who has flown over 150 missions in Afghanistan. She graduated from MIT, is a college basketball player, and now part of the latest graduates of the NASA’s astronaut program. That’s quite a bit of accomplishment, and it…
It’s a scary thought to think we could let astronauts fly to Mars after watching The Martian. Who would want to get stuck on Mars for over 6 months waiting to get saved? At the same time though, how many people can say they’ve been on Mars in their lifetime? There’s been much talk that…
In 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi, an Italian monk, looked up into the sky through his telescope and discovered what he thought was a comet or an asteroid. He named it Ceres, after the Roman goddess of grain and agriculture. As more was discovered about it over the years, it came into planet status, and is now…
If you’re a gamer, you may have played sci-fi MMOs and RPGs, first person shooters, or air/space dogfighting games. If you like the sci-fi genre, you may have watched movies like Star Trek and Star Wars and TV shows like Firefly. But I bet you’ve never played a videogame that combines all of those into…
All vehicles, great and small, eventually need to have their windows cleaned, and the International Space Station is no different. Granted, given how clean space tends to be, they have to do it a lot less often than we do, but eventually enough gunk from engine firings and space dust do add up. Of course,…
One small step for man, one giant leap into hyperspace for space travel! Behold, The Future of Flight! A couple of years ago, Harold White, NASA engineer and physicist, revealed that he had plans to work on a groundbreaking scientific idea right out of “Star Trek,” “Star Wars,” and just about every other star-related science…
Lockheed Martin, known for outstanding operations in weapons, national defense, and…junk dealing? Wait, What? On Monday, Lockheed Martin won a contract to build a space fence for the Pentagon. This space fence will be able to track hundreds of thousands of pieces of debris in the Earth’s orbit. Is that it, Lockheed Martin? Just a…
It’s not a pizza company, and it’s not an offshoot of Planet Express from Futurama, but it does have futuristic elements to it. Founded in 2010 by some aerospace mavericks, Moon Express has been watching the moon from afar, studying its crevices and plotting journeys into its immense monochromatic embrace. Like Twinkies and ‘80s-style shoulder…
By 2024, there will be life on Mars. Mars One, a Dutch non-profit organization, is planning to set up a permanent human settlement on the Red Planet. More than 200,000 people applied to be a part of the mission during the first round of testing, but only 1,058 applicants were admitted. The selection process began…
The live stream below shows two Russian Cosmonauts beginning their work on the International Space Station. The stream of their work will last another 4 hours. Live streaming video by Ustream Spacewalk To Repair International Space Station Two Russian cosmonauts began a seven-hour spacewalk this morning to install new equipment on the International Space Station….
When the first men landed on the moon, the Nixon administration had a speech prepared in case astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin got stuck on the moon. A notable line read ”These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, know there is no hope for their recovery.” “I’m serious Buzz, fuck this flag.” Is There…
Check it out: Astronaut Ron Garan explains how he tweets from space. Also, some breath-taking space shots will be featured in this round-up. Ron Garan, a member of Expedition 27, is popularly known in Twitter as @Astro_Ron. You got that right – aside from carrying out his daily NASA missions, Ron Garan still finds time…
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover had just begun exploring and analyzing rocks on the surface of the planet when it began experiencing some problems with a computer glitch caused by corrupted files. The rover has been switched to a back-up computer, which is now being reconfigured, so that it can take over. Mars Curiosity: Science, The…