It looks like a tiny bottle of liquid, but you are looking at the breath of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, the crew of Apollo 11, the first humans to land on the moon, condensed into liquid.
Space.com reports that, with last week’s resupply failure putting NASA behind schedule, Russia needs to get its Soyuz craft back up to speed. If they don’t, the ISS will be an empty vessel after the last of the current crew leaves in November.
NASA astronaut Ron Garan has captured something remarkable. A shooting star. Not in his hand or with his telescope, but with a camera. Still not impressed? He did this while orbiting above the meteor!
With arguably the coolest job on or off the planet, astronauts need nobody’s pity. Nonetheless, theirs is a life of extraordinary psychological demands: leadership, technical proficiency, split-second decision making and ironclad focus.
When NASA’s astronauts go on a spacewalk, they often carry a space camera for those memorable moments. Think they use some fancy gear developed in a secret NASA lab? Think again.
As NASA completes its final shuttle mission, we thought it would be fun to look back at this training manual from the Apollo program. Ever wondered how an astronaut pooped in zero gravity? Here’s your answer.
Preparing to plough up into the vacuum of space is no small task. It might even be a little stressful, even to the iron-nerved astro-gods at NASA. So before every launch, they retreat to this house for drinking and wives.
NASA officials learned last March that a British auction house had an item labelled “Movie Camera from the Lunar Surface” as part of their Space History Sale. The camera was described as being one of two used aboard Apollo 14′s lunar module, Antares.
This high definition short is a fascinating document. Narrated by NASA’s Dr Justin Wilkinson, it shows a tour of planet Earth as seen by astronauts, explaining what are the places that they first focus on while in orbit.
Andrew Feustel, an astronaut, got soap in his eye and started tearing up. In his words, “my right eye is stinging like crazy” which really sucks because in space, tears “don’t fall off of your eye… they kind of stay there.”
