The last of the Shuttle-Centaur stages is loaded onto a trailer at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama for its move to NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Credit: U.S. Space & Rocket Center/Ed Stewart A last-of-its-kind rocket stage that was left over from a cancelled, controversial chapter in NASA’s space shuttle […]
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If there’s a multiverse out there can we see it? Credit: Flickr/Maciek Bielec, CC BY-NC-SA Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator, writer and host of “Closer to Truth ,” a public television series and online resource that features the world’s leading thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions (produced and directed by Peter Getzels). This essay is […]
Analog Watch Co.’s Lunar Watch, made from a solid piece of moon rock, ships on April 1 — or does it? Credit: Analog Watch Co. “Own a Sizeable Chunk of the Moon with This Lunar Watch.” That was Gizmodo’s headline Thursday morning (Mar. 31), leading to an article about Analog Watch Co.’s new Lunar Watch, […]
Engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are evaluating how crews inside a mockup of the Orion spacecraft interact with the rotational hand controller and cursor control device while inside their Modified Advanced Crew Escape spacesuits. To source
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The ThinkGeek “Star Trek” White Noise Sleep Machine is one of a handful of fake April Fools Day items offered by the online retailer. Credit: ThinkGeek ThinkGeek, the premier online shop for science and science fiction-inspired gifts, toys and housewares, just released its annual line of fake products for April Fools’ Day. Among the not-really-for-sale […]
New views of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, combine infrared photographs taken by the Cassini spacecraft’s Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer that pierce the moon’s dense haze. The top photos in each of the composite maps show a close-up of the 50-mile-wide (80-kilometer-wide) Sinlap impact crater. Credit: NASA With its dense atmosphere, Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, […]
Blue Origin aims to launch and land this New Shepard rocket for the third time on April 2, 2016. Credit: Blue Origin/Jeff Bezos Twitter Blue Origin is taking this whole “reusable rocket” thing pretty seriously. The private spaceflight company, which was established by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, aims to launch its New Shepard rocket to […]
The Argyre basin region, a rim of rugged mountains surrounding a nearly circular expanse of lighter plains, is visible in the center-left portion of this image by NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS An enormous basin in the southern hemisphere of Mars might be the best place to search for signs of past and present […]
Record-setting NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has handed in his spacesuit. Kelly, who recently wrapped up an unprecedented yearlong mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and has spent more total time in space than any other American, officially retired from NASA today (April 1). The astronaut recently reflected on his spaceflight experiences and accomplishments in […]
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin stands on the moon in July 1969. Credit: NASA Buzz Aldrin is hoping to do some serious gloating this weekend. The Apollo 11 moonwalker is taking on ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale in the fourth annual “Allstate March Mayhem Challenge,” a competition to see who can pick the most […]