Apr 21
Want to own a piece of NASA history? Just take a trip to the jewelry store for a watch with the right guts.
Mar 05
Mars One, the program that is planning to create a human settlement on Mars by 2024, has received over 200,000 applications of Earthlings who are interested in leaving their home planet forever by taking a one-way ticket to Mars. This short documentary examines a few of those people’s motivation to leave everything behind.
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Jan 03
Ground control to Major Tom, we need some light! This cute little USB light looks just like an astronaut. Instead of being tethered to a space station, he’s tethered to your USB port and will brighten up any area.
This light is a fully-adjustable table lamp that will come in handy for reading as well as other Earthly things. You can turn it on and off with a simple flip of the helmet’s visor. If you are a fan of space or the space program, or just a fan of humans in spacesuits, this is the light for you.
You can get it from ThinkGeek for only $19.99(USD).
Dec 27
Here’s astronaut Mike Hopkins taking the selfie to end all selfies. It’s over, you cant’ beat it, give up, return your camera, become a horse jockey. Hopkins snapped a photo of himself in full astronaut suit outside of the ISS as he was spacewalking on Christmas Eve with the beautiful blue Earth in the background. And he didn’t even need to use a filter.
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Nov 28
It might look more like an engine from an aging car than a piece of engineering fit for space, but this machine was a pioneering piece of apparatus that allowed astronauts to experiment with fluids in space.
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Sep 11
Without any context, it looks like something has gone terribly, terribly wrong in the photo above taken around midnight last night. But that little ball engulfed in flames is doing just fine—and so are the three members of the International Space Station Expedition 36 that were snuggly inside and on their way home.
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Aug 26
If you’re ever curious about the exact number of people who are in space right now, the single-serving site aptly named how many people are in space right now? will tell you. The answer is 6. The lucky 6 who are currently living every kid’s dream? Americans Chris Cassidy and Karen Nyberg, Russians Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin and Fyodor Yurchikhin and Italian Luca Parmitano. Three of them have been up there 91 days, the other three 152 days.
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Aug 06
Technologically inclined Barbie’s aren’t exactly new, but a Mars Explorer Barbie? Yeah, that’s worth mentioning. In cooperation with NASA, the “Career of the Year Mars Explorer Barbie” is being “launched”… presumably right into Ken’s ever-loving heart. We’re told that she’s ready to “add her signature pink splash to the red planet,” and should be hitting Earthly shelves now for $12.99. The best part? Curiosity won’t have to sing a birthday song alone ever again.
Filed under: Internet
Via: CNET
Source: Barbie Media
Aug 06
When you’re floating in space, it pays to be prepared, so it’s perhaps no surprise that the International Space Station packs a pretty impressive tool kit. Those obsessed by workshops and making, prepare to drool.
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Jul 17
After the dinosaurs came the astronauts and their spaceships. At least that’s the sequence of events I recall from my history lessons in grade school. And thus the same sequence of events is playing itself out in the world of 3-dimensional cookie cutting. Previously, we had some awesome dinosaur cookie cutters, and now, you can buy outer space cookie cutters. History repeats itself. It’s Déjà vu all over again.
Just like the dinosaurs before them, these cookie cutters from Suck UK let you bake delicious 3-dimensional cookies by assembling components into a single composite treat. The series includes a rocket ship, a space shuttle, some sort of martian spacecraft, and something that looks vaguely like a TIE fighter.
So what’s not to like? You can grab these space cookie cutters at I Want One of Those for £7.50 (~$11 USD) each or three for £20 (~$30 USD).
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