Science News finds inspiration from the carnival for a new way to keep astronauts in shape, by running along the inside of a circular wall just like motorcycle stunt-riders do on the Wall … Read the rest “Moon running on the Wall of Death”
BBC reports on scientist Marie Makuate, who is leading a one-woman campaign to give the African continent a winning position in the new space race:
… Read the rest “The space heroine of Cameroon.”As a geospatial expert for the NGO Humanitarian
He thought so! LiveScience recently reported on Alejandro Otero, who in 2021 was pretty sure the weird chunk of stuff that crashed through his roof in Naples, Florida, was a battery pack … Read the rest “NASA confirms – that really *was* space junk that hit man’s house.”
Maybe Houston Chronicle just likes ragging on Elon Musk, maybe it’s a local paper commenting on a locally important industry – either way, they’ve got a story on how … Read the rest “SpaceX leads the way… in workplace injuries.”
NASA reports that the interstellar probe, which stopped sending back updates last November, is once again letting HQ know how its onboard systems are doing. Next step is getting it to send… Read the rest “Voyager 1 is working again.”
Pictures of a storm from space. Big hurricanes are big!
Fran was a Category 3 major hurricane – so a big storm, but far from the biggest.
As NASA describes this poster (for that is what… Read the rest “Science Art: HURRICANE FRAN – NARA – 17393787, by NASA.”
Reuters reports on the first private-corp lunar lander, who successfully touched down on the Moon and sent back useful data about conditions there. That’s the good news. The not-so-good… Read the rest “Odysseus tipped over on the Moon.”
BBC Sky at Night Magazine reports on NASA’s plan to look deeper into space than ever before by setting up a 9-lb (4-kg) radio telescope farther away than ever before – on the south… Read the rest “Building a telescope on the Moon.”
Space.com brings more evidence of a life-sustaining environment on primordial Mars, in the form of ancient sediments that confirm Jezero crater was once a vast lake:
… Read the rest “New hope for life on Mars”As Perseverance travels
Science Magazine gets heavy with insects that, when brought up in the “hypergravity” of a spinning centrifuge, grow stronger exoskeletons as a result:
… Read the rest “Locusts raised in a centrifuge have stronger skeletons.”When a person exercises
Mashable has an alien communication story with an aquatic twist. SETI and the Alaska Whale Foundation practiced for first contact by spending 20 minutes “conversing” with… Read the rest “SETI talked for 20 minutes with a whale.”
Ars Technica reports on a rocket launch from Jeff Bezos’ space company – the first in 15 months, after an engine failure destroyed a New Shepherd rocket. The new New Shepherd… Read the rest “Blue Origin is back in the space business.”
Popular Science raves about the carbon, oxygen, and other life-sustaining material NASA scientists have found in samples retrieved from the OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu:
… Read the rest “Samples from asteroid Bennu “an astrobiologist’s dream””And
A satellite that is also a balloon, as inflated at NASA’s Langley Research Center in 1958.
I found this image gleaming in the NASA Image and Video Library.
The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle-3 was an experimental Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle – a fancy hovercraft – that the Apollo astronauts used to practice … Read the rest “Science Art: Armstrong Through the Years – LLRV-3 by NASA Graphics/Kirstin Sharrer”
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