Space & Spaceflight

NASA Airing High Def Tour of the ISS Today and Tomorrow

If you’ve ever wanted a closer look at the International Space Station, NASA Television will be airing a 35-minute HD tour today and tomorrow. Filmed by Expedition 18 Commander Mike Fincke, the show will run at both 1pm and 3pm (CST) on January 22nd and 23rd on NASA Television. Immediately following the broadcast, you’ll also…

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

To the Chagrin of Rich Geeks Everywhere, Russians Killing Space Tourism Program

Richard Garriot and other well-to-do nerds will no longer be able to play spaceman, now that Russia’s canceling its astrotourism program to make way for three real astronauts at the International Space Station. https://gizmodo.com/gaming-mogul-space-tourist-richard-garriott-back-on-ear-5068161 Russian Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov told reporters that ex-Microsoft man Charles Simonyi will be the last private space passenger. He’ll…

Space & Spaceflight Elaine Chow

The Moon Landings Were a Hoax!

Or at least they had help from a nude, blue atomic warrior wielding a Hasselblad-one sneeze from him is all the thrust needed. I can’t wait for this movie. [New Frontiersman viral site via Wired]

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney

Forty Years Ago, A Cosmonaut Experienced What Can Only Be Described as ‘Hell’

We cover a lot of cool NASA space shuttle stuff here at Gizmodo, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention an important milestone for that other vital spacecraft, out of Russia, the Soyuz. That milestone happened on Friday, when the Soyuz program celebrated the 40th anniversary of an historic event: The first orbital docking…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

Physicists Believe Our Universe Is One Big Hologram, And They May Have Spotted the Pixels

It’s not until you acknowledge the world’s greatest physicists do you realize how fundamentally useless our role here is. You and I will not uncover the secrets of the Universe. Luckily, someone’s working on it. One branch of theoretical physics believes that the Universe is just a holographic version of 2D information. And scientists have…

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

How Asteroid Apophis Could Destroy the US West Coast in 2029

You have seen a badass asteroid obliterating Earth in a theoretical simulation, but you probably missed astrophysicist Neal deGrasse Tyson talking about the very real possibility of Apophis hitting California in April 13, 2029. https://gizmodo.com/badass-asteroid-destroys-earth-in-high-definition-5118876 Clearly, you can tell why Neal is the host of PBS’s NOVA spaceNOW TV program. While the clip is from…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Rogue NASA Science Team Pitches New Spacecraft Designs to Obama

NASA, when it isn’t finding rogue space lights or mysterious BOOMs of the non-Steve Jobsian variety, is apparently sending rogue science teams to brief President-elect Obama on the future of the space program. https://gizmodo.com/hubble-finds-unidentified-object-in-space-scientists-p-5049896 These teams weren’t sanctioned by NASA top brass, so in a way they are effectively going rogue, not unlike an Alaskan…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

NASA Detects Mystery Booming Sound In Deep Space, Origin Unknown

Call Dr Arroway, because NASA has detected a deep space sound that defies belief or any explanation. They don’t have a single clue about its origin, according to Alan Kogut from the Goddard Space Center: The universe really threw us a curve. Instead of the faint signal we hoped to find, here was this booming…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Hubble Discovers Star Torpedoes Ripping Through Space

They are stellar interlopers: Stars that instead of rotating quietly around a galaxy, rip their way across interstellar gas creating bow shocks, like giant proton torpedoes. These are a new kind, according to the JPL: We think we have found a new class of bright, high-velocity stellar interlopers. Finding these stars is a complete surprise…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Japanese Invent High Tech Space Diapers

Engineers all over the world have focused their vast brainpower to overcome one major obstacle—space pooping. The Japanese think they have a solution with their fancy new wearable toilet. https://gizmodo.com/habemos-john-astronauts-can-boldly-go-again-as-iss-to-5013353 Indeed, this is a far cry from the glorified Depends former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak drove cross country in a couple of years back. These…

Space & Spaceflight Sean Fallon

NASA Spirit Rover Celebrates Five Productive, Dusty Years On Mars

Happy anniversary, Spirit! That’s right—against all odds, NASA’s plucky Spirit rover has officially been on the Red Planet for five years. Its twin, Opportunity, will celebrate the same five-year milestone on January 24. To celebrate the anniversary, NASA assembled a short video that profiles several of the JPL engineers who’ve pretty much dedicated their lives…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

Cool Flash Graphic: Every Craft In NASA’s Constellation System, Deconstructed

Accompanying a long piece on the future of NASA’s Orion/Constellation system, the NYTimes threw together a nice Flash graphic detailing the individual components of what may or may not (ahem Fianciapocalypse) replace the Space Shuttle. While the written piece prods and pokes at the budgetary and bureaucratic challenges (shocker!) NASA is jumping through to get…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney

Space Origami Kit (Pew, Pew, Blast Off, Etc)

Paper cranes are alright, but they won’t match our bedsheets. The $10 Space Origami Kit features 120 pieces of square paper along with a 32-page instruction manual that will teach you how to build exciting space stuff like rockets, astronauts, lunar modules and super novas—all while disguising your childhood fantasies into an age-old, respectable art…

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

Badass Asteroid Destroys Earth in High Definition

A hundred years ago a large meteor exploded ten kilometers above the Earth’s surface in Tunguska, obliterating 830 square miles of woods. It was the largest impact in recent history, but nothing compared to this. The meteor-or comet fragment-was only a few tens of meters in diameter, according to modern estimates based on its 15…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

The Apollo 8 Original Press Kit

Used to a thousand inane press kits announcing useless pieces of junk, I wish it was 1968. Then, I could have received this Apollo 8 Press Kit, detailing the first manned mission to the Moon. Forty years ago the crew of the Apollo 8 was-right now-on their trip back to Earth after the successful mission…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

NASA Begins Outsourcing ISS Supply Missions to Private Companies

Following (some) successful launches and prior rumors of deals, NASA has given SpaceX and Orbital massive contracts to send supplies to the ISS. https://gizmodo.com/james-doohans-son-speaks-up-poignantly-about-failed-spa-5033144 The contracts, for $1.6bn and $1.9bn respectively, demand each company to deliver about 20 tons of vital cargo to the International Space Station. The private flights will serve as a temporary…

Space & Spaceflight John Herrman

How to Prepare the Space Shuttle for Another Mission to the ISS

The Big Picture has a photo essay showing us every step that the Space Shuttle Endeavor goes through between missions, from touching down to taking off again. Endeavor has gone through this process a whopping 22 times in the past 16 years and will hopefully go through it many more times in the future. This…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci

Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo Flies For the First Time

We saw ground tests last week, but yesterday morning WhiteKnightTwo-the funky-looking double-wide plane that will take SpaceShipTwo and its cargo of millionaires on suborbital spaceflights-finally took off on its maiden voyage. https://gizmodo.com/virgin-galactics-whiteknighttwo-performing-runway-tests-5110215 The flight lasted just under an hour, and apparently all went according to plan. You can see some brief in-flight videos at Flightglobal.…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney

Hubble Captures Moon Disappearing Behind Jupiter in Stunning HD Video

Here’s something you’ve never seen before: Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, caught on video as its orbit takes it behind the gaseous giant. Incredible. This movie shows Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, as it ducks behind the giant planet. Astronomers combined a series of images taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci

Virgin Galactic’s Spaceport America Gets FAA Green Light

It becomes less and less a future fever dream every day: Spaceport America in Las Cruces, NM, Virgin Galactic’s future home, has gotten FAA approval to begin construction. The design has been set since September 2007, but now that an environmental impact assessment has been passed, construction can now begin. Branson is banking on the…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney

NASA Airing High Def Tour of the ISS Today and Tomorrow

To the Chagrin of Rich Geeks Everywhere, Russians Killing Space Tourism Program

The Moon Landings Were a Hoax!

Forty Years Ago, A Cosmonaut Experienced What Can Only Be Described as ‘Hell’

Physicists Believe Our Universe Is One Big Hologram, And They May Have Spotted the Pixels

How Asteroid Apophis Could Destroy the US West Coast in 2029

Rogue NASA Science Team Pitches New Spacecraft Designs to Obama

NASA Detects Mystery Booming Sound In Deep Space, Origin Unknown

Hubble Discovers Star Torpedoes Ripping Through Space

Japanese Invent High Tech Space Diapers

NASA Spirit Rover Celebrates Five Productive, Dusty Years On Mars

Cool Flash Graphic: Every Craft In NASA’s Constellation System, Deconstructed

Space Origami Kit (Pew, Pew, Blast Off, Etc)

Badass Asteroid Destroys Earth in High Definition

The Apollo 8 Original Press Kit

NASA Begins Outsourcing ISS Supply Missions to Private Companies

How to Prepare the Space Shuttle for Another Mission to the ISS

Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo Flies For the First Time

Hubble Captures Moon Disappearing Behind Jupiter in Stunning HD Video

Virgin Galactic’s Spaceport America Gets FAA Green Light

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