Last year, NASA held a recipe contest for cooking on Mars. Ordinary civilians like us were invited to submit recipes based on a list of available ingredients—heavy on freeze-dried produce and various meat-flavored "textured vegetable proteins"—to be cooked and judged by crew members of HI-SEAS.
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The universe is freezing. In spots like the Boomerang Nebula
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NASA scientists are poring over their most detailed snapshots of our universe, searching for the hallmark shapes that indicate a planet being formed. And you can help them, even if you never got that Ph.D. in astronomy, just by hopping on the Disk Detective website.
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I just got an email from NASA touting their upcoming Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium, an open conference that will take place at Stanford University next week. It came with the image you can see above, by Iron Rooster Studios’ Peter Rubin, something that makes me very happy.
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The story behind NASA’s brief embrace of extraterrestrial sherry is a curious one. In the early seventies, the agency’s focus was shifting from short, Moon-focused missions to possibility of longer-term inhabitation of space. A revamped menu was among the most pressing challenges: food on the Gemini and Apollo programs came in dehydrated cube form, or squeezed from a pouch, and was universally regarded as inedible.
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NASA has been running its space program for decades. While there have been some major successes in the space program from putting a man on the moon to creating the … Continue reading
This is a photo of what’s happening right now above our heads. It’s a solar eclipse near the moon. You just can’t see it, because you’re not in space.
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NASA, busy developing cutting edge technologies and exploring the dark unknown corners of the vast universe, has been hit with a quite unusual lawsuit by Rhawn Joseph of the Journal … Continue reading
NASA has announced a new program called Lunar Catalyst that is seeking companies to create private lunar landers. Under the program, NASA will select companies that it will provide extensive … Continue reading
Last month we picked up on a report from China’s state news agency which was about Chang’e-3, a probe that the country was sending to the moon. It took off from Xichang as planned and landed on the moon’s surface on December 15th. China called its first moon rover the “Yutu,” meaning Jade Rabbit, a mythical being believed to have a mix of mechanical abnormality and elixirs of immortality, according to China’s state space agency. In reality though, the rover isn’t immortal, in fact, it may bite the moon dust after just one month. Apparently it has ran into a “mechanical control abnormality,” possibly compromising motors that close its solar panels.
China’s First Rover Bites The Moon Dust original content from Ubergizmo. 
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