Tag: SPACE
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 […]
For its inaugural mission to the International Space Station, NASA’s new nonprofit CASIS enlisted Shepard Fairey to create the smart-looking patch above, which each astronaut will wear on their shoulder. It’s not the first time a street artist has sent work to space, but it might be the most official. “I wanted to convey the […]
As you read this, an intrepid Google Nexus smartphone is blasting through space, where it will continue to orbit the Earth for the next six months. Today marks the launch of a multi-faceted experiment designed by a team of researchers from England’s University of Surrey, who hope to test several theories on outerspace physics, screams, […]
That big one in Siberia wasn’t the first meteorite to touch down on Earth. French journalist Jean Abbiateci and developer Pablo Navarro created the below animated visualization, which maps every meteorite fall from 1900 on onto one global map. And what do we learn? That lots of space rocks have touched down in the U.S. […]
This morning’s meteorite impact in Russia had nothing at all to do with the massive asteroid that’s scheduled to barely graze by Earth this afternoon, it turns out–that one’s still on its way. Asteroid 2012 DA14, at 50 meters in diameter, will zoom by without disturbing our planet, according to NASA, but it’s understandable if you’re […]
Scientists have discovered not one but two new moons of Pluto recently–one in 2011 and another last year–and the team that discovered both has decided to crowdsource their names. They’ve set up a poll in which you can vote from a selection 12 names, including such badass options as Cerberus, Hercules, and Hypnos, or write […]
Being shot into outer space seems to be the new fad for 2013. Coco Brown, a porn star, announced her intent to voyage into outer space in 2014 as part of a private Dutch expedition. A couple days later, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, claimed that he will volunteer as the first person sent into […]
A new documentary from the Verge details the major players in a new sort of space race–one that’s being run by small, private companies and chiefly funded on Kickstarter. The ideas presented–ranging from putting Arduinos into orbit to give developers access to data from space (amazing), to building an elevator on the moon (maybe less […]
The above image comes from NASA’s Black Marble series of satellite photos, which caused quite a stir when it was released online last month–look at all the beautiful lights, the tiny cities! But as it turns out, one of those clusters of illumination isn’t a city at all; it’s an enormous cluster of fracking outposts, sending hundreds […]
The newest addition to NASAs fleet of spacecraft may be filled with air, as the agency awarded a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow Aerospace to develop an inflatable extension to the International Space Station. Though it sounds a bit like sci-fi fantasy, inflatable space technology is very real, and has been in place since the […]
