Interested in your solar system? How would you like to be able to have a close encounter with Jupiter? Maybe you can. On March 8th, 2016 Earth and Jupiter will have a close encounter. The giant planet will be “up all night,” soaring almost overhead at midnight and not setting until the sky brightens …
After spending nearly a year aboard the International Space Station during which time they conducted a whole array of different experiments, the people who lived on the space station are home. The crew was busy while they were in space conducting a wide range of different experiments. They were trying to determine the effects …
We’ve all got questions about how certain things are accomplished in space. This video answered the question about how astronauts actually sleep when they are in space.
During transits around the far side of the moon, Apollo astronauts recorded strange “music” on their communication equipment.
Inside the International Space Station (ISS) which is a space station in low Earth orbit. First launched into orbit in 1998, and the largest artificial body in orbit it can often be seen with the human naked eye. The crew can only stay in space orbit for several months maximum, then then must return to …
Published on Oct 29, 2015 Recently, Tested hosted a screening of ‘The Martian’, the new film based on the acclaimed book by Andy Weir. After the screening, Andy and astronaut Chris Hadfield joined Adam Savage on stage to discuss the movie, space technology, and NASA’s real mission to Mars.
The Hubble Space Telescope has been doing a good job of showing us things in the universe we couldn’t possibly see before. Now it is aging and it is about time for it to be replaced. What will replace it? The James Webb Space Telescope will be Hubble’s replacement. It won’t simply be a …
Sea Level Rise Slowed by Water Retention on Land We know that the polar icecaps are slowly melting, but what we don’t know, is whether that will have as drastic of an impact on ocean levels as was previously thought. Recent studies by NASA have revealed that despite thawing glaciers and ice caps, the rising …
Space Station Research Paves Way for Crops in Space Before NASA is able to reach its target of sending a human expedition to Mars, and even exploring Deep Space in the future beyond that, solutions to a plethora of challenges must be found. The need to create sustainable crops for sustenance, is one of …
Scott Kelly Suggests the Earth’s Atmosphere is Very, Very Fragile Astronaut Scott Kelly is notorious for his pictures of Earth from the Space Station. In a recent interview with CNN, Kelly shared some information and insight about what he has seen. This includes the fact that the atmosphere appears to be very, very fragile. …