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Space Camp Needs Your Help
If you’re an aspiring astronaut too young to even drive a car, for the past 38 years for donations to stay afloat.
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Gizmodo Visits NASA: What It Feels Like To Fly In A Crazy Zero-Gravity Plane
The Reduced Gravity Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston is home to NASA’s own flying, microgravity laboratory, “The Weightless Wonder.” It’s every bit as incredible as the name suggests.
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Gizmodo Visits NASA: Taking Virtual Reality To A Whole New Level
We’ve seen how NASA recreates the vacuum of space right here on Earth, but what about the gravity of space? What about the forces of inertia? When large objects move and behave so differently, how to you train for a mission so you know what to expect when you get there? Like this.
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7 Reasons Curiosity Is The Baddest Rover Ever
While Curiosity was still flying through space, way before it landed on Mars, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were busy working with a clone rover back on earth. In a simulation area called the Mars Yard, scientists put the duplicate Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) through a series of experiments to perfect the rover’s software…