NASA will start looking for candidates who want to take part in a mission to Mars or other space missions. The astronauts have to be American citizens with at least bachelor’s degree in the areas of physical science, engineering, mathematics or biological science. The other requirements include three years of related experience or 1000 flight …
WOW – NASA TV! Did you know that NASA actually has a television station where you can watch the space station live every week?
Ice Volcanoes Unique To Pluto NASA’s recent 3D images of Pluto show two mountains on the dwarf planet that could be ice volcanoes. Scientists called the objects cryovolcanoes and say that the formations could have been active in the recent past. Pluto’s ice volcanoes cover a huge area and rise to over 3.5 miles …
What is it like to view the earth from space? Space tourism is a great way to do this. The only catch is that you have to be prepared for the price tag of one round trip ticket. Just pre-booking a flight already costs 100,000 USD. Each trip is supposed to provide a few short …
Space Tourism is Available for Would be AstronautsRead More »
A smart phone has reached space and has successfully transmitted confirmation that the spry spacefarer is good to go. This is NASA’s, which is a four-inch cube, weighing 2.2 pounds. NASA’s Moffet Field Ames Research Center was the site of its development. PhoneSat 2.4 makes it possible for engineers to command a satellite from …
The Brain Adjusts To Space Environment Since the first manned missions to space, it has been painfully apparent that prolonged time in space is detrimental to an astronaut’s physical well-being. Science has recently brought to light (fueled by NASA recruiting for their upcoming missions) that prolonged time in microgravity like that found on a space …
Oort Cloud Studies Are Just Beginning This week, astronomers at Washington D.C.’s Carnegie Institution for Science announced the discovery of what is so far the most distant object in the solar system. The dwarf planet, currently named V774104 orbits the sun at a distance which is three times farther out than Pluto. The exact …
We Have Water (And Blue Skies) On Pluto Too? … Pluto continues to surprise us. First we find a surface that’s amazing, then we find what we think are hydro-thermal vents. On top of that, New Horizons shows evidence of Nitrogen glaciers of all things (Nitrogen is usually a gas). More photos come in …
NASA Is Testing A Buoyant Rover For Possible Europa Mission … Europa continues to amaze and tantalize scientists. Who would have thought we would find a planet, or even a moon for that matter that possibly has more water on it that Earth itself? Then on top of that, we find because of the …
Remarkable NASA Moon Mission Photos Recovered – Lots and Lots of them! As it turns out, NASA equipped the astronauts with Hasselblad cameras. These guys were way ahead of their time, and until now – we didn’t know what they captured. Well wait no longer. NASA just released over 8000 Lunar Mission images, and …