The First 3D Printer in Space 3D-Printed its First Object
While you were probably wishing the Christmas break would arrive and be done with already, the astronauts on the International Space Station made history.
While you were probably wishing the Christmas break would arrive and be done with already, the astronauts on the International Space Station made history.
All of the simulations in the world can't prepare you for how things behave in zero gravity. Sometimes you just have to fly.
The experiment is being carried out by the astronauts up on the ISS. Why do they get all the fun?
It's not just old rock albums that get remastered when technology moves on: moons do too.
The Soyuz TMA-15M rocket launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sunday, 23rd Novmeber. The craft will carry three astronauts up to the International Space Station where they'll undertake a five and a half month mission. And install a coffee machine.
The Systems Engineering Simulator is where you can learn to fly, drive, and design better space vehicles.
Before astronauts fly up to the International Space Station, they have to know how to deal with different scenarios. We got a look into the VR workshop where they get their incredible tutoring.
Every single asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere from 1994 to 2013 are shown in this NASA-provided map. Five-hundred and fifty-six in all.
Chamber A at Johnson Space Center in Houston is a marvel of engineering, cleanliness, and design. It's also the closest you can come to being in space without strapping into a rocket.
If you shoot enough things into the sky on top of volatile rockets, some of them are going to let you down. Or blow up.
More parking spaces for private jets, maybe?
Shape-changing assemblies allow wings to bend and twist to manoeuvre a craft through the air.
Orbital Sciences has confirmed that a malfunctioning turboprop in the engine was the likely cause of the explosion
You're looking at the largest sunspot since 1990 as it crossed the surface of the Sun. Captured between October 17th and 29th, the spot was big enough to see without a telescope.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft catches a glimpse of bright sunlight reflecting off the hydrocarbon seas of Saturn's large moon Titan. [NASA]
The botched launch gave us a peek into the processes that dictate every rocket launch, and one of them was particularly surprising.
