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NASA
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Astronauts Tweet Mandela Tribute With Photo Of Cape Town From Space [PIC]
06 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield paid tribute to Madiba on behalf of NASA, as he and many other astronauts took to twitter to share their condolences, and celebrate his life.
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You Gotta See This NASA Video Of A Comet Cruising Past Earth [VIDEO]
29 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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STOP EVERYTHING: They Just Found Water On Mars
27 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Just when you thought the Curiosity Rover was just digging up dirt up in vain up on the red planet, it’s gone and struck gold – well, water, actually. That’s right, believe it or not, there’s water on Mars.
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NASA Wants to Pay You R175,050 To Lie In Bed
20 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Do you want to lie in bed for 70 days and not have a worry in the world? NASA has the job for you. They are looking for candidates to help them further their research into space and all they need you to do is lie in bed. You can do anything you want, as long as you continue to lie down.
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A Frog Photobombed The NASA Rocket Launch [PIC]
13 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On 6 September, NASA’s rocket Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) took off from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. At the same time, a frog took one giant leap for amphibiankind and photobombed the whole thing. Take that, rocket ship.
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Of Course NASA Is Going To Capture An Asteroid
12 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
NASA has plans to capture an asteroid, using a robotic space lasso, then tow it in to the moon’s orbit where it can be explored and studied by astronauts. How do they plan on doing that?
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Save On Transport: NASA Is Growing Lettuce In Space
11 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
NASA has a VEGGIE program, thats short for the Vegetable Production System programme, somehow. After successful attempts to grow zucchinis and other plants in zero gravity under artificial lights, NASA has announced plans to sustain space travellers on the International Space Station with produce grown on the station itself.
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NASA Releases Epic Music Video Tribute In Memory Of Neil Armstrong [VIDEO]
26 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Sunday marked the one year anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s death, and NASA released this music video as a tribute to the late astronaut. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon as commander of NASA’s Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.
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Radical 2-Minute Time Lapse Shows Mars Rover’s First Year On Mars [VIDEO]
02 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It has almost been a year since NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover touched down on the red planet. The WALL-E lookalike landed on Mars on 6 August last year, and since then has been drilling into the martian planet, collecting soil samples and taking some of the best selfies in the universe.
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NASA’s Largest And Most Powerful Rocket Is On Track For A 2017 Test Flight
10 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is NASA’s largest and most powerful rocket to date. And the aim is for it to have its first test flight in 2017. Low-Earth orbit travel will be a thing of the past for NASA: they want the Space Launch System to take them to new heights.
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Google Is Teaming Up With NASA To Create Artificial Intelligence
04 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google and NASA are joining forces to create and study Artificial Intelligence. This new breed of super computer could change everything. The Quantum Computer will be programmed to behave like a human and make decisions based on the data it is provided with.
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The Best Use For 3D Printers Yet: Printing Pizza In Space
23 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you have ever wanted to be an astronaut, but the thought of eating food that miraculously appeared from powder creeped you out, this might be the thing that changes your mind. Take a look why.
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NASA Footage Shows Biggest Meteorite Impact On Moon, Ever Recorded [VIDEO]
20 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A meteorite collided with the surface of the Moon creating an explosion 10 times greater than anything ever seen before – it was the Moon’s biggest explosion to date. It was even visible from Earth with the naked eye.
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Secret Private Moon Mission?
04 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Going to space isn’t such a big deal these days. Basically, you just need enough money and you can go. But if you have enough money, you might as well go on your own, or with some mates, right?
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Friday Morning Spice
30 Nov 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 5 Comments
SA editors freak out over Gaga censorship. MNET sorry for horror film schedule. Dalai Lama to be re-invited. Leveson report blasts Murdoch. Ecclestone berates ‘unbecoming’ Ferrari. Assange has chronic lung condition. DSK settles with maid.
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NASA Tests First Nuclear Engine For Deep-Space Exploration Since 1965 [VIDEO]
28 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For the first time in nearly 50 years, NASA has used a small prototype of a nuclear-reactor engine design to test whether this could one day power deep-space exploration probes.
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Elon Musk Wants To Build 80,000-Person Mars Colony, Probably Will
27 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That is correct, our very own Elon Musk is staying true to his word about doing things on Mars. Except he’s changed his tune slightly – he no longer just wants to send one person all the way there.
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Wednesday Morning Spice
10 Oct 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Gautrain under strain. Agriculture minister denies Zumaville donation. Skydiver Cancels Try at Supersonic Jump. Challenge to Eskom’s electricity monopoly. Australia PM’s Epic Rant on Sexism. Scottish to vote on independence. Twitter Mulls an In-House Video-Hosting Service.
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Friday Morning Spice
28 Sep 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Big blow as Moody’s downgrades South Africa. Malema’s gang calls Mthembu a ‘drunkard’. ‘Most wanted’ traffic offender nabbed. Facebook cracking down on fake ‘Likes’. Mars rover Curiosity finds signs of ancient stream.
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Radiation From Half A Million Mile ‘Solar Whip’ Hits Earth Today [VIDEO]
04 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This massive solar whip or filament is 800 000 kilometers long. That’s 20 times the circumference of the earth. Makes you feel small, doesn’t it. The gigantic solar filament collapse has been caught on a NASA observatory camera.
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Awesome Interactive 360° Panorama From The Surface Of Mars
14 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Unless you’re currently in some kind of deep space training program, or you have some diabolical plan that no one knows about, the chances are pretty slim that you’ll ever actually get to set foot on Mars. Thankfully, we’ve got the next best thing for you, a fully interactive 360° panorama from the surface of the Red Planet. Enjoy.
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Nasa Celebrates Mars Rover Landing [VIDEO]
06 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Curiosity has landed. Nasa Administrator Charles Bolden: “Today, the wheels of Curiosity have begun to blaze the trail for human footprints on Mars.”
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William Shatner Narrates Rad NASA Video Days Before Mars Landing [VIDEO]
31 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Mini-Cooper sized Curiosity Rover is on target to land on the surface of Mars at 07h31 am on August 6th. This presents the most advanced mission to Mars in the history of space exploration. William Shatner and Will Wheaton have contributed their voices to videos explaining the mission.
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The Best View Of Mars Yet
09 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
After months and months of image collection, NASA has released what is the best image of Mars yet. If you can’t get there this week, this is the next best thing. Described by Nasa as the ‘Greeley Panorama’ from the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, the first image documents the fifth Martian Winter of the mission.
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Mars Landing In 40 Days. NASA’s 7 Minutes Of Terror [Video]
27 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In my opinion this is a far more exciting countdown than the Olympics; in 40 days, NASA’s nuclear powered Curiosity rover will enter the Martian atmosphere, and the landing is the most nerve-racking part for the engineers.
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NASA’s Amazing New Robotic Aerogarden Is How We’ll Survive Off-Planet
14 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Deep space travel is creeping ever closer to becoming a reality and one of the biggest challenges faced, apart from actually getting astronauts to their destination, is providing a constant supply of fresh food, water and air. An ambitious project by students at the University of Colorado and Colorado State University looks take of all of these with one foul swoop.
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NASA Planning Manned Asteroid Mission
16 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
NASA will start training a team astronauts to land on an asteroid in the next month, in preparation for a mission that will take humans farther from Earth than ever before. They’ll be collecting mineral samples and determining how to destroy an asteroid in the event that it might collide with the Earth. Seriously.
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Asteroid Mining Could Save The World’s Economy
23 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Time-tested wisdom says the sky’s the limit. However, a group of billionaires are looking to change that as they launch the first ever venture to mine asteroids, in space. For real. Click through for the details.
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Space Shuttle Discovery’s Final, Majestic Flight [VIDEO]
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Earlier this week, space shuttle Discovery took its final flight, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to Dulles International Airport, on the back of a 747. That’s a space shuttle piggybacking on a jumbo jet, and it was awesome. Click through for the video.
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Brilliant Solar Flares Exploded From The Sun Yesterday [VIDEO]
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Yesterday NASA managed to capture the clearest-yet footage of a solar flare in process after magnetic fields on the Sun’s northeastern curve exploded in huge streams of plasma and sun stuff. The footage only accounts for about five seconds of explosion, but it’s very, very cool, both in and out of time-lapse.
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