Posts Tagged ‘nasa’
The new episode of the always-fascinating Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast is a play-through of the Voyager Golden Record, the iconic message for extraterrestrials attached to the Voyager I and II space probes launched in 1977. Listen below.
The Golden Record tells a story of our planet expressed in sounds, images, and science: Earth’s greatest music ...
"And we have lift off the guitarist G 11 mission." Huh?
The closed captions on Facebook might need a bit of tweaking after a NASA video displayed some peculiar subtitles.
The video in question is the Wednesday launch of Northrop Grumman's Antar... ...
The human body "remains robust and resilient" after almost a year in space, according to a long-term, multi-institutional study of twins, one of whom lived aboard the International Space Station for 340 days while the other remained on Earth. These heartening results remove a potential barrier to crewed interplanetary missions — and just in time ...
When astronaut Scott Kelly landed in the frigid Kazakhstan plains on March 2, 2016, a team of responders pulled Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts from the charred capsule and carried them to chairs, set out in the crisp morning air. After nearly a yea... ...
Yesterday, scientists revealed the first ever photo of a black hole. Three years ago, Katie Bouman, then a computer science grad student at MIT, led the development of a key algorithm that helped make this historical image possible. In the TED Talk above from 2017, she explained "How to Take a Picture of a ...
For decades, pictures from space have forced humanity to reckon with our own cosmically small insignificance. But they have nothing on today's monumental first in space photography.
The Event Horizon Telescope captured a phenomenon so mysteriou... ...
Painting the sky with your own aurora is as easy as launching a NASA rocket into the Norwegian night.
The space agency orchestrated its own version of the light phenomena on Friday in order to understand the amount of energy auroras generate within E... ...
The Commercial Crew program is well on its way to changing the way the world accesses space, but SpaceX may hog the glory this year if rival Boeing keeps putting off the first tests of its complete Starliner system. The first uncrewed test flight, tentatively scheduled for May, has been pushed all the way out ...
NASA’s Administrator Jim Bridenstine has warned India’s “Mission Shakti” to destroy a low-orbit satellite using a missile produced debris that has boosted the risk for crew aboard the International Space Station. Read more...M... ...
The Trump administration announced a 5-year deadline for NASA to send astronauts back to the moon. NASA previously announced that it was on schedule to have humans back on the moon by 2028. Read more...More about Nasa, Mashable Video, Moon, Trump, and... ...