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NASA concludes tests for prototype Moon rovers
Washington, September 16 (ANI): NASA has concluded two weeks of technology development tests on two of the agency’s prototype lunar rovers.
“These tests provide us with crucial information about how our cutting edge vehicles perform in field situations approximating the moon,” said Rob Ambrose, Human Robotic Systems project lead at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. [...]
Glowing light show in American sky was actually astronaut pee
Melbourne, Sep 16 (ANI): The trail of light that sparkled through the American sky on Wednesday night was not a unique celestial show, but was actually astronaut piss.
While skygazers marvelled at the beauty of the glowing trail, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery were merely dumping water and urine out into space in preparation for [...]
‘Smell of space’ strong, metallic and unique, say NASA astronauts
Washington, September 7 (ANI): NASA astronauts aboard the US space shuttle Discovery have said that the smell of space, which is regarded as the final frontier, is strong, metallic and unique.
“There is one smell up here that is really unique though and that is the smell, we just call it ‘the smell of space’,” said [...]
NASA’s Orion spacecraft passes significant design milestone
Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): NASA’s Orion spacecraft has passed a significant design milestone by completing the Orion Project’s preliminary design review (PDR), and thus taking a major step toward building the next crew exploration vehicle.
Orion is being designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station and other destinations.
The preliminary design review is one [...]
NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour launches to complete Japanese module
Washington, July 16 (ANI): Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven-member crew have set off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 15, to deliver the final segment to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kibo laboratory and a new crew member to the International Space Station (ISS).
Endeavour’s 16-day mission includes five spacewalks and [...]
N Sync’s Lance Bass, Adriana Lima, Miranda Kerr still game for space travel
New York, July 15 (ANI): When it comes to travelling in space, N Sync star Lance Bass is still game for it, while supermodel Adriana Lima would not mind taking her family and unborn baby along.
Talking at the Louis Vuitton Celebrates the 40th [...]
Brain scanner for astronauts passes ‘vomit comet’ test
London, July 3 (ANI): A gadget that could sneak a glimpse inside an astronaut’s brain has passed the ‘vomit comet’ test, which means the device can be calibrated to measure blood flow in zero gravity.
According to a report in New Scientist, Gary Strangman, a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, is leading development of [...]
Native seeds may feed future human colonies in space
Sydney, June 29 (ANI): An Australian experiment with native plant seeds has raised hopes for self-sustaining human colonies in space, with the seeds, taken into space last year, showing no signs of “fatigue” or damage after surviving more than 28,000 orbits of the [...]
Snoop Dogg, Buzz Aldrin team up for rap single Rocket Experience
London, June 25 (ANI): Snoop Dogg has teamed up with Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin to record a rap single Rocket Experience.
Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the moon, said he had reached his second mission of becoming a rap star, thanks to [...]
Space geek Tom Hanks says he can put his hand into moving particle accelerator!
London, June 21 (ANI): Tom Hanks has revealed he is such a space geek that he is willing to put his hand into a particle accelerator, also known as atom smasher.
The actor along with Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard appeared at CERN, the particle physics laboratory in Switzerland, for the promotion of their new film [...]
NASA astronaut becomes first man to use Twitter from space
London, May 14 (ANI): Mike Massimino, a member of the NASA crew sent to Hubble, has become the first man to have sent a Twitter message from out of space.
Accoridng to a report in the Telegraph, his first tweet proclaimed: “From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, and enjoying the [...]
Aliens do exist but US govt hides the truth, says ex-astronaut
London, April 22 (ANI): There is extraterrestrial life and it is being concealed by the United States government, claims ex-NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell.itchell made the claims at the fifth annual X-Conference – a meeting of those who believe in UFOs and other life forms.
Mitchell, who was part of [...]
NASA to study sleep movements on Everest
A team of NASA scientists, along with their Indian and Nepalese aides, is set to leave for the Everest base camp on Monday to carry out experiments on “sleeping and waking movements” for future space programmes.
The team of 25 scientists from NASA, who arrived in Kathmandu on Saturday in a research mission, includes doctors, pilots [...]
Kids to send their signatures to space through NASA shuttle
Washington, April 5 (ANI): This year, on Space Day, which is celebrated on the first Friday in May, NASA and Lockheed Martin’s main program would involve signatures by students flown aboard a space shuttle mission.
Known as ‘Student Signatures in Space’, the program will be one of the highlighted projects during the Space Day.
The mission of [...]
Smell of space is funny, say Discovery pilots
Washington, Mar 29 (ANI): The space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven have safely returned to Earth. But the one thing pilots can’t get out their noses is space’s “weird” smell.
“One thing I’ve heard people say before, but it wasn’t so obvious, was the smell right when you open up that hatch,” Live Science [...]
NASA’s shuttle Discovery glides home after successful mission
Cape Canaveral, Mar 29 (ANI): Space shuttle Discovery and its crew landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing a 13-day journey of more than 5.3 million miles.
The team landed at 3:14 p.m. (EDT) on Saturday.
The STS-119 flight delivered the space station’s fourth and final set of solar array wings, completing the station’s truss, [...]
Indian scientists told to create a curry fit for orbit!
London, Mar 27 (ANI): A team of Indian military boffins has been tasked with a particularly tricky mission: to develop a curry to be consumed by astronauts in space.
Last month India had approved a 1.1-billion pound manned mission, and plans to send a man into space by 2015 and hopes to send some familiar food [...]
US billionaire becomes first space tourist to visit International Space Station twice
London, March 27 (ANI): US billionaire Charles Simonyi has become the first space tourist to make a trip to the International Space Station (ISS) twice.
According to a report by BBC News, Simonyi, aged 60, was part of the three-member crew aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket that blasted off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome.
The software tycoon, who [...]
Tom Hanks to play Major Matt Mason
Washington, Mar 25 (ANI): Hollywood actor Tom Hanks will star in a live-action feature based on the vintage Mattel toy Major Matt Mason.
Matt Mason is an astronaut who lived and worked on the moon. The toy was first introduced in 1966 by Mattel Inc, the world’s [...]
6yr-old Indian-American boy’s IQ is greater than that of Einstein
Chicago, March 13 (ANI): An Indian-American boy has an IQ greater than that of Albert Einstein at the tender age of six.
Pranav Veera has an IQ of 176, while Einstein’s IQ was believed to be about 160.
The little boy can recite the names of the U.S. presidents in the order they served in office, [...]
