South Africa is entering the space realm. The Denel Group is creating a high resolution, Earth observing satellite. The satellite will be called the EO-Sat1, and will be monitored by the South African National Space Agency.
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.
The photo above shows NASA Expedition 36 Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy being carried to a field medical tent shortly after he and Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) landed in their Soyuz capsule in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, this morning.
Over two decades ago, eight people entered what they called Biosphere 2. It is a 3,15 acre ecological ark which is situated an hour north of Tuscon, Arizona. Would you be able to survive living and communicating only with eight people for two years?
NASA’s Curiosity Rover has been poodling around on the surface of Mars for over nine months now, poking in the dirt and sending back pictures of its shadow and/or penises that it drew in the sand. You can thank a humanoid, then, for recovering some of Curiosity’s dignity with this excellent time lapse
Remember how the fictional dilithium crystals were used to make travel faster than the speed of light in Star Trek: The Next Generation? Well those crystals – or crystals with an uncanny similarity to them – may be coming to the real world in one of the best instances of art imitating life that we’ve ever seen.
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.
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.