Tag: outer space

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Who Wants To Be The Garbage Collector Of Space?

There are tens of thousands of pieces of space debris orbiting the Earth. We've tried a few different ways to bring them back down over the years.

Apollo 12 Crashed Its Lunar Module On Purpose

This week marks 50 years since the Apollo 12 mission, the second time humans went to the moon and the first time we launched an artificial earthquake there.

Can We Get Mac and Cheese To Mars?

A mission to Mars would take years of travel - but today's space food doesn't last long enough. Scientists at Washington State University are working on a way to fix that.

Our Long History Of Crashing Stuff Into The Moon

We always celebrate great space achievements, why not also commemorate some great space screwups? This month marks 60 years since the first time a spacecraft tried to land on the moon but crashed instead.

Voyager Went A Long, Long, Long Way: This Week’s YouTube Videos To Watch With Your Kids

We are covering a LOT of ground in this roundup, as you'll see.

Lawn Chair Larry Takes To The Sky

On this day in 1982, a dude named Larry Walters entered aviation history as the pilot of a craft called Inspiration I - which was a lawn chair attached to 42 large weather balloons.

Selfies On Mars

The Curiosity Rover takes selfies on Mars - so how does it do it without having its robot arm in the foreground of every shot?

What Is The Euphemism For “I Dropped A Frog”?

Scientific papers can be wild. When they refer to “unplanned rapid disassembly," that’s an academic way of saying “accidentally exploded.”

Venus: If You Lived Here, You’d Have Melted By Now

Today's the 50th anniversary of an overlooked but important visit to a fairly nasty place… the planet Venus.

Roombas! In! Spaaaaaaace!

Astronauts have a lot of cleaning to do. But there are plans for a new system that would disinfect the interiors of spacecrafts and space stations with ultraviolet lights.

The bad news about Pluto

"I hate to say it," my oldest said to his younger brother, "but the planet Pluto is the coldest planet in the solar system."

Of Chimps, By Chimps, For Chimps

Wikipedia's article on the Mercury-Atlas 5 mission is... just read on.