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more about #getmeoffthisrock more comments → komododave: I think the next theme week should go to our home grown final frontier: The Ocean! Deep sea ocean tech, submarines, deep sea mining, crazy ships....th... more » Kaiser-Machead: It was a brilliant week of articles guys, and it concluded nicely with Diaz' "Why We Need To Reach The Stars" article. Kudos. more » jakebathman: Anyone else having problems with being continually signed out on commenting? more » NarcoSleepy: You bare your soul, not bear it. Bearing your soul is likely to get it shredded to tiny bits more » Kaiser-Machead: This is by far one of the best Giz articles I've read in a while, and now I must reread Foundation. more » Sprzout: Personally, I think our ignorance is holding us back when it comes to physics. Maybe I'm just thinking this out too much, but we have some theories ab... more » Kakkoister: Hopefully we can muster such technology before our planet is burnt to a crisp by the sun in another million or so years. more » HiltonJahooby: This is exactly what attracted me to the Star Trek, and is my favorite show from the first episode of TOS to the last episode of ENT. I think we shoul... more » Con Seannery: Actually, we can go FASTER than light, we just can't go LIGHT SPEED. So we have to figure out how to go past light speed without going through light ... more » Bos'un's Mate: BTW, if anybody needs inspiration, google 'Tracy Caldwell'. more » Bos'un's Mate: I don't know about the best position for space sex, but the best location is where the spinning ring of a space station mates with its stationary hub. more » loslosbaby: "Armstrong landed that old thing on a wing and a prayer..." Buzz Aldrin landed the Eagle, and spoke the first words heard from the moon too! "Contact ... more » bosskev: Here's how you--as an astronaut--would experience the mission...More realistically, here's how I--as a lazy-assed civilian--would experience the missi... more » infmom: Gagarin was not the only early space explorer who was grounded after one flight. Scott Carpenter and Deke Slayton made only one spaceflight each. I r... more » infmom: Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun, A man whose allegiance Is ruled by expedience. Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown. "Ha, Nazi Sch... more » -
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Space Week Roundup: The Right Stuff
Well, last week's space theme was exciting for readers and staff alike, not least of all because we had a real actual NASA astronaut baring his soul daily. Here are the highlights:
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Why We Need to Reach the Stars (and We Will)
We reached the Moon in a tin can, built a humble space station, and have a plan to reach Mars in a bigger tin can. But we need to reach the stars. And we will. More » -
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From Earth To Moon Redux: How The Next Moonshot Will Happen
May 2019: Our scheduled return to the moon. There's plenty of laboring to be done on the Constellation Program before then, but the foundation is set. Here's how you—as an astronaut—would experience the mission: More » -
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Some Other, Non-Giz-Affiliated Astronaut to Answer Questions Live From Space
Because NASA's hip with the kids, dammit, they're using both YouTube and Twitter to let the public ask questions of astronaut Mark Polansky, commander of the International Space Station. More » -
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Sex In Space: When's Someone Gonna Get Freaky in Zero G?
In his final installment as Gizmodo's cherished Astroblogger, real-life astronaut Leroy Chiao covers the taboo topic of sex in space. Will it happen? Has it happened? Guess you'll have to read to find out... More » -
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Are We Spending Too Much On NASA?
Yesterday Obama unveiled an $18.7 billion budget for NASA in 2010—a 5% increase over this past year. This is a preliminary figure that could change after a 3-month review of the agency is completed. More » -
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10 Everyday Gadgets With Ties To The Space Program
Chances are you use a gadget touched by space technology each and every day. Here are 10 common gadgets and products with ties to space exploration that have improved our lives here on Earth.
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Slooh: Control Big Telescopes Around the World in Your PJs
Used by astronomers for years, Slooh is an online service that lets people control space telescopes around the world and take images in real time. They've now launched a novice version for you and me. More » -
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The Trouble With Space Toilets
Even when astronaut guest blogger Leroy Chiao isn't asked, he knows people are dying to know: What's the deal with relieving yourself when there's no gravity to contain the mess? How does it actually work? More » -
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Eating Like an Astronaut: Our Six-Course Space Food Taste Test
Eating is one of life's most important activities, and the same applies in space. Every astronaut eats three times a day, and yesterday for lunch, Adam and I had space food. It was awesome. More » -
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The Air Up There: What Space Stations Smell Like
In Leroy Chiao's five-day stint as astronaut guest blogger, he's striving to illuminate the everyday aspects of life aboard the International Space Station, stuff that isn't in press releases. Today's topic? The air they breathe. More » -
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The Space Station We Were Supposed To Get 40 Years Ago
Across the Space Frontier is one of the most beautiful—if wildly inaccurate—books on space travel, mostly American space-race propaganda. Here are cutaways of the space station and rocket promised to be active by 1970.
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Confessions of a Space Camp Alum
In the summer of 1986, I spent a week at Space Camp in Huntsville, AL. Not only that, but in our final mission, I crashed our Space Shuttle. More » -
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NASA Running Out Of Fuel For Deep Space Missions Because Nobody Makes Nukes Anymore
Supplies of NASA's go-to fuel for space exploration, plutonium-238, are dwindling. The U.S. stopped making it 20 years ago and now NASA's Russian suppliers are running out after production shut down. More » -
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In Honor of Yuri Gagarin, the First Human in Space
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin stepped into his Vostok 1 spacecraft, started the pre-flight checks, and waited for countdown. Hours later, he muttered one of the most beautiful, yet obvious phrases in history: More » -
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This is Stephen Colbert's NASA Space Station Treadmill
The Stephen Colbert treadmill looks tiny, but there isn't a lot of space to go around up there on the ISS. How does this work? More » -
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NASA Giving Photosynth Tours of International Space Station
Wanna see where astroblogger Leroy Chiao spent over half a year? Check out NASA's brand-new ISS Photosynth virtual tour (requires Silverlight). [NASA Photosynth Collection] -
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All 172 Star Trek Voyager Episodes Played Back at Once
Computer! Yes captain? Place all 172 Star Trek Voyager episodes onscreen. Voyager? Yes. Not TNG? No, not TNG. You're sure not TNG? I said Voyager, dammit. And play them back at 14x speed! ...OK More » -
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The Charms of Soyuz: Blasting Off In a Crazy Russian Rocket
Our astronaut guest blogger Leroy Chiao is one of the few spacemen to have flown in both a US Space Shuttle and Russia's five-decade-old spacecraft, the Soyuz—any guess which one he prefers? More »
