Collaborate Disseminate
To understand why male astronauts have experienced vision changes in space, we need to study women on Earth. Continue reading A NASA Scientist’s Bizarre Theory for Why Astronauts Lose Their Vision in Space
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
When Hackaday announced winners of the 2014 Hackaday Prize, a bunch of hackers from Greece picked up the grand prize of $196,418 for their SatNOGS project – a global network of satellite ground stations for amateur Cubesats.
The design demonstrated an affordable ground station which can be built at low-cost and linked into a public network to leverage the benefits of satellites, even amateur ones. The social implications of this project were far-reaching. Beyond the SatNOGS network itself, this initiative was a template for building other connected device networks that make shared (and open) data a benefit for all. To …read more
David Saint-Jacques is a medical doctor, engineer and astrophysicist. Continue reading Somehow, Canada’s Newest Spacebound Astronaut Seems Overqualified
Former astronaut Marsha Ivins talks about the challenges, surprises, and hacks of filming a 4K movie in outer space. The post A Beautiful Planet: Shooting IMAX Is Hard Enough on Earth. In Space, It’s Preposterous appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading A Beautiful Planet: Shooting IMAX Is Hard Enough on Earth. In Space, It’s Preposterous
The mice will be observed via a live video feed, as well as expected to carry out tasks designed to test their muscle function. Continue reading A New Crew of Mousetronauts Is Headed to the International Space Station
