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10 Cool Things Chris Hadfield Taught Us to Do While in Space
Chris Hadfield, on behalf of my comrades here on Earth, we salute your return to terra firma.
Room with a View: Scenes from the International Space Station
The world is a decidedly different place from 250 miles up—one too few of us get to see.
Kickstart This: A Space Elevator on the Moon?
Gravity can be a grueling taskmaster. Anyone who’s walked up a dozen flights of stairs knows this. Getting into space is that much harder. It takes hundreds of thousands of pounds of thrust and over half a million gallons of …
Still More Robot Company for Mars
Even before the Curiosity Mars rover fully gets to work, NASA is planning its newest mission to the Red Planet.
What’s Next for NASA? 10 Wild Newly Funded Projects
What the Curiosity Rover Can Teach Us About Mars — And Earth
Communicating with a Mars probe can be a little like talking to the dead. Depending upon how far apart Mars and Earth are at any given moment, it will take anywhere from 4 to 20 minutes for a light-speed radio signal to traverse the distance. What’s breaking news or an imminent danger when the spacecraft sends out its signal can be …
Curiosity Rover Preps for Big Plans After its Daring Descent
Now that the “Seven Minutes of Terror” is over, the compact-car-sized biochemistry lab is spending its first two weeks doing the same thing you might do after stepping off a hair-raising roller coaster.
via The Curiosity …
If You Need a Reason to Get Excited About Technology Again, This Is It
Early Monday morning, the 33-year-old version of me watched live as NASA engineers cheered, hugged and patted each other on the back. The Curiosity rover had landed safely on Mars and I was awake at close to 2am on a …
Mars Curiosity Rover: Wheels Down on the Red Planet
The rover pulls off an improbable landing—and fires up its instruments for two years of research.
via Mars Curiosity Rover: Wheels Down on the Red Planet | Science and Space | TIME.com.
Curiosity Takes Center Stage as Crowds Cheer in Times Square
It was a bit surreal to stand in the middle of Times Square and hear a throng of revelers chant “NASA! NASA!” as if the space agency had just won a gold medal in the Olympics. They were cheering the successful landing of …
How to Experience the Curiosity Rover’s Mars Landing Online
Back in 2004 when Spirit and Opportunity landed in Mars, YouTube didn’t even exist. This time around, keeping up with NASA’s Martian exploits online will be a lot easier.
At 1:30am EDT on Monday, Curiosity will attempt to land …