Collaborate Disseminate
You’ve likely heard of the “vomit comet” — an rather graphic nickname for the aircraft used to provide short bursts of near-weightlessness by flying along a parabolic trajectory. They’re used …read more Continue reading Developing An App For Reduced-Gravity Flying
The Telemetron generates musical compositions using gyroscopic “chimes.” Continue reading The ‘Telemetron’ Is a Post-Earth Musical Instrument Designed for Zero Gravity
It may look more like a Companion Cube than R2-D2, but the ISS is getting an astromech droid of sorts.
According to [Trey Smith] of the NASA Ames Research Center, Astrobee is an autonomous robot that will be able to maneuver inside the ISS in three dimensions using vectored thrust from a pair of turbines. The floating droid will navigate visually, using a camera to pick out landmarks aboard the station, including docking ports that let it interface with power and data. A simple arm allows Astrobee to grab onto any of the hand rails inside the ISS to provide …read more
Continue reading Turbine-driven Robot to Navigate Inside Space Station
Astronomers experimented with CD players turned on and off to see how they would behave in the space station. Continue reading Watch What Happens When You Turn on a CD Player in Zero Gravity
The recent ISS Commander has returned to Earth and has a lot on his mind. Continue reading Scott Kelly’s Year In Space Convinced Him We Need to Save the Planet