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.