Another Reason To Be an Astronaut: You Get To Hang With This Adorable Zero G Robot

Robots aren’t only taking over our duties as factory workers and amusement park guides. They’re also slowly taking over our cool jobs too, like on the International Space Station, where Kibo will serve to entertain Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata with inspirational tweets from earth—and also look adorable floating around in zero gravity. More »

Astronaut Sheets Guarantee the Best Dreams Ever

What kid doesn’t dream of growing up to be an astronaut one day? It’s the one fantasy job that always manages to beat out professional athlete and ninja—but not everyone is destined to visit space. If your life path has led you to a more earthbound job, you can still dream about the stars with this awesome spacesuit duvet and pillowcase. More »

Astronauts on ISS to shoot the breeze in Google+ Hangout, answer your questions

Astronauts on ISS to shoot the breeze in Google+ Hangout, answer your questions

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station and right here on terra firma are clearing their schedules for a Google+ Hangout on February 22nd, which will be the first NASA-coordinated Hangout with the ISS. Between 11 AM and noon ET, astronauts will answer questions previously submitted via video clips and those streaming in from the space agency’s Facebook page, Google+ and through Tweets tagged with #askAstro. NASA isn’t saying who’ll snag live face-time with the spacefarers during the Hangout, but it is asking folks to upload unique and original questions in clips of 30 seconds or less to YouTube by February 12th. Yearning to have a query answered? Hit the jump for the full submission details.

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