A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Prototypes of Bigelow Aerospace’s Sundancer habitat.
At the Bigelow Aerospace factory here, the full-size space station mockups sitting on the warehouse floor look somewhat like puffy white watermelons. The interiors offer a hint of what spacious living in space might look like.
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Mt. Kilimanjaro
One of the astronauts currently in residence on the International Space Station is using Twitpic to send some spectacular imagery of our home planet back down to us Earthlings (that’s Mt. Kilimanjaro as seen from space at right).
Continue reading… “Astronaut Tweets Amazing Earth Images From Space”
The photo actually shows a trail of urine and waste water streaming out of the shuttle Discovery.
The beautiful trail in the sky looked like a mysterious celestial event. In reality, it was urine. Some skygazers were treated to the unexpected view of a bright sparkling glow Wednesday night, created when astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery dumped the waste out into space.
Continue reading… “Glowing Trail Of Astronaut Urine Spotted In The Night Sky Over North America”
A small region inside the globular cluster Omega Centauri, which has nearly 10 million stars
Astronomers unveiled new pictures and observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. With the exception of a picture last month of the bruise on Jupiter caused by a comet, they were the first data obtained with the telescope since a crew spent 13 days in orbit last May replacing, refurbishing and rebuilding its vital components. (Pics)
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The First Couple of Zero G’s
A pair of space fanatics will have a wedding that is out of this world when they become the first couple to get married floating in zero gravity at the Kennedy Space Centre.
Noah Fulmor, 31, and Erin Finnegan, 30, will exchange vows on an aircraft at the centre at Cape Canaveral, Florida, that can simulate weightlessness similar to a spaceship in orbit.
The groom will offer the floating bride a ring made of fragments from a meteorite that crashed into the Earth 30,000 years ago….
Continue reading… “A Zero Gravity Wedding For Two Space Fanatics”
Astronauts’ meals have come a long way from the freeze-dried powders and semi-liquid pastes of decades ago: now US scientists want to grow vegetables in mini-greenhouses on the Moon.
Continue reading… “‘Lunar Oasis’ – Growing Flowers and Vegetables on the Moon”
Alien life does exist but the truth is being covered up by the United States government, former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell has claimed.
Continue reading… “Ex-Astronaut Claims Aliens Exist and UFO’s Are Covered Up By The Government”
NASA, which used Twitter to send updates about the Mars Phoenix Lander program, is turning to the micro-blogging service again.
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Throw away your soap, detergent, and personal hygiene, the Japanese have invented odor-free underwear. Continue reading… “Stink Free Underwear”
Astronauts on board of the International Space Station have been called into action to dodge yet another piece of space junk.
Continue reading… “Space Shuttle Discovery Pushes Space Station Out Of Path Of Space Debris”
The Poo Sucker 5000?
Leave it to Japan to fiddle with the adult diaper technology and develop the next-generation space toilet. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has teamed up with engineers from the private sector to complete the project in the next five years:
Clean and easy to use, the envisioned space toilet is designed to be worn like a diaper around the astronaut’s waist at all times. Sensors detect when the user relieves him or herself, automatically activating a rear-mounted suction unit that draws the waste away from the body through tubes into a separate container.
American millionaire Richard Garriott followed in his astronaut father’s footsteps on Sunday, blasting off aboard a Russian rocket to become the world’s sixth space tourist.
Sealed inside the Soyuz TMA-13 capsule together with a Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut, Garriott, a renowned videogame developer, was catapulted towards the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur base in the dusty steppes of Kazakhstan at 7.01am GMT.
Continue reading… “Richard Garriott Lifts Off To Space”
