NASA

  • NASA’s Rover Curiosity “accidentally” draws a giant penis on Mars

    NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity “accidentally” drew a giant penis on the red planet’s surface earlier this month, and NASA’s technicians, probably bored with having to wait a whopping 20 minutes for any command to apply, took a picture of it before making it public. The image was immediately rendered...
  • Having a wet towel in space might be fun but it sure is messy

    Two Canadians students, Kendra Lemke and Meredith Faulkner of Nova Scotia have asked Chris Hadfield what it would be like to wet a towel in space and wring it out to see what happens to the water, towel etc. This is the experiment. That looks like fun! As you can...
  • Scientists claim that life is likely on Saturn moon Enceladus

    Other than having the dubious quality of being named after a South American delicacy, Enceladus is one of the largest moons of Saturn. Discovered in 1789 by William Herschel it is now attracting some attention. Why? Because a group of NASA scientists have recently claimed that it’s possibly the...
  • Amazon’s CEO finds lost Apollo 11 rockets

    Move over James Cameron, there’s another big wig billionaire exploring the deep seas and finding stuff. Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, has located the missing Apollo 11 rockets at 14,000 meters below sea level. Apollo 11 being the first space craft to land on the moon in the 1960’s....
  • Astronauts suffer brain and eye damage after a month in space

    A new study of 27 astronauts is proving a little alarming – showing those who spend a month or more in space suffer brain and eye damage. The journal of Radiology is reporting the study, which used MRI scans on the NASA astronauts. The scans showed varying degrees of...
  • NASA astronauts land in Kazakhstan, find Russian farmers welcoming them

    Three astronauts landed safely in Kazakhstan early Tuesday morning, after spending more than five months on board the International Space Station. They were received unceremoniously by farmers, and carried fireman style over to the trucks that then took them to an airport. Volkov, Furukawa and Fossum were flown to the...
  • The Moon is shrinking!

    The Moon; Humans will always be fascinated by it. Cavemen likely looked up at it and wondered if they could unhook it from the sky. We’ve written books about it, poems were recited, Duran Duran wrote a song about it being new, on a Monday. We’ve had paintings, documentaries, men...
  • Amateur promotes NASA better than NASA promote themselves [The Frontier is Everywhere]

    If you don’t think NASA needs any promotion, consider the options that are open to a person that meets the physical and intellectual requirements; then consider what NASA pays… then consider what said person’s salary and benefits might be like if he or she were to enter the corporate...
  • NASA captures partial solar eclipse from space

    While eclipse shots always look interesting, if you have seen one you have pretty much seen them all… until now. NASA’s SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) captured these incredible images as their camera was focused on the Sun in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light – when the dark Moon...