The moon? Boring. Mars? Meh. The next giant leap for mankind won’t come in the form of an interplanetary trip, but rather a quest to the pile of rocks that weren’t quite good enough to become planets. Yup, asteroids. And NASA’s already started training for the trip.
You might think the trippy animated visualisations in your media player are the best way to see your music, but astronaut Don Pettit has found a better way. All it requires is a small set of speakers, a blob of water and a space station 400km above the Earth.
NASA and SpaceX have a date for the launch of the Dragon spacecraft that will reach the International Space Station: Saturday, May 19, from 4:55 AM ET/1:55 AM ET. It will be a historic moment. Here’s what will happen:
Sure, space-based X-ray telescopes have been in service since the Einstein Observatory launched back way back in 1978. But the NuSTAR Project is different: It promises to illuminate at the heavens above as never before.
You are looking at the largest piece of tin foil in the planet, one of the James Webb Space Telescope‘s sunshield membranes. There will be five of these membranes, which will keep its core at 50 Kelvin (-223.15C).
SpaceX has once again been forced to delay the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft. The latest launch date was scheduled for Monday, May 7 from Cape Canaveral in Florida and a new date hasn’t been set. Issues with the software responsible for controlling the automated spacecraft have caused several of the past issues and are assumed to be responsible for these latest delays.
If you’ve never attended a shuttle launch, you must watch this perfect video. Watch it with good and big headphones. Or, better yet, with an amazing sound system. In fact, this is the perfect video to test your audio setup with gigantic subwoofer.
The Space Shuttle program is dead and in the process of being buried. We don’t have a plan to return to the outer limits of mankind’s reach any time soon. Well, we didn’t. The Onion is reporting NASA’s aspiring new plan to put a man on a bus to Cleveland, Ohio, by 2013.
