Tag: NASA
Whoaaaaaa. Yes, this interactive photo of the surface of Mars, taken by the Curiosity rover, is 1.3 billion pixels large. Go, look at it, zoom and scroll around. Look at all the locations NASA bookmarked for you–“Laser shots,” “Wheel tracks,” “Bird-shaped rock!” That’s an image of Yellowknife Bay above. Fuck, this is awesome. Atlantic Cities […]
Out of approximately 6,000 applicants — the highest number of applicants in some time — NASA has finally chosen it’s newest selection of astronauts for the first time in nearly four years. There eight in total and four are women, NASA’s record. The crew: Christina Hammock (Jacksonville, North Carolina), Nicole Aunapu Mann (Penngrove, California), Anne McClain of (Spokane, Washington) […]
In an effort to produce snacks that are fit for long-distance space travel, NASA awarded a $125,000 to mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor to develop a 3D printer for food. Their first endeavor, naturally, will be pizza. According to the Verge, each “building block” of a particular food will exist as a powdered “ink,” and building […]
Why waste your vacation days on afk trips to exotic lands when you can take a birds-eye tour from Russia to South Africa, without leaving the comfort of your work desk? NASA just created this incredible 19-Gigapixel sweeping filmstrip by stitching together series of images of Earth taken by Landsat satellites since 1972. The mind-blowing natural […]
These photos were captured by three smartphones as they orbited the Earth onboard the Antares rocket last month. The gadgets were in space as part of NASA’s “PhoneSats” project, a mission that sought to test whether a piece of consumer electronics could serve as the “main flight avionics” –that is to say, the brain–of a […]
Upon seeing NASA’s glorious Mars penis for the first time, I attempted to get to the bottom of the mysterious member. Was the “drawing” an intentional joke, or a happy accident? Which Mars rover left the tracks? Would the space agency care to comment? After two emails to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab were shot back […]
Earth’s proud tradition of drawing dicks on things has finally gone interstellar. Some intrepid Redditors spotted the above image on a NASA robotics site, and when the site went down–presumably due to increased traffic–NASA made the planetary penis more accessible, putting it on its own page. It appears that the cosmic cock is the work […]
Why is Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield so cool? When he’s not busy jamming with his cosmic music group Bandella or sending us mesmerizing videos of experiments in zero-gravity, the renaissance man dabbles in photography. Here’s his latest SpaceKam masterpiece from onboard the ISS: a vivid, bird’s eye view of “New York City, incredibly clear, before the […]
Six astronauts are coming to train at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in the Utah desert on April 20th. The Utah desert is very much like Mars in its terrain and its crushing loneliness. The Russians are coming specifically to practice “maintaining domestic life on Mars.” That sounds exciting. And boring. But exciting. The biggest challenge […]
Buzz Aldrin’s 44-year-old toothbrush is just one of many of the extravagantly priced but ultimately pretty sweet items up for sale in an upcoming auction of space memorabilia from Heritage Auctions. There’s also an armrest from the Apollo 17 mission (starting bid: $7,500), an Apollo 16 wrist mirror ($10,000), and a Fender Strat (yup) signed by […]
