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Flying To Mars From New York City
May 17th, 2012 at 1:00PM:
The first astronauts are landing on Mars this week. . .at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.
Installation artist Tom Sachs is running his "SPACE PROGRAM: MARS," a four-week spaceflight involving a crew of actors and elaborate sets made from common materials bought in a hardware store. The sets cover every detail of the mission including getting into space suits, provisions of food and ...
Space Travel: Hurry Up, We Have Mining To Do
May 1st, 2012 at 5:00PM: Thoughts of space travel bring images of the spent space shuttle program, Richard Branson and companies jockeying to build the next best vehicle to supply the International Space Station. Low-Earth orbital flights for commercial purposes should happen later this year, so things are moving right along in that area as well. But now, there is an organization that announced plans this week to mine ...Dutch Astronaut Tweets Photos From International Space Station
Apr 15th, 2012 at 8:00AM: One of the joys of travel is taking great photographs of the places we visit and sharing them with friends and family back home. In the age of mobile Internet access, and services like Instagram and Twitter, it is easier than ever to chronicle our journeys through photos no matter where we are at any given time.
That includes the International Space Station it seems as Dutch astronaut ...Photo Of The Day: Happy Cosmonauts Day
Apr 12th, 2012 at 6:00PM:
Today marks the 51st anniversary of manned space travel, and if you happen to be in a former Soviet country, you may be celebrating Cosmonautics Day. On April 12, 1961, 27-year-old Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space, orbiting the Earth for nearly two hours. The USSR beat the US in the space race by just three weeks, and two years later, Russia would send the first woman ...Space traveler brain scans bring troubling results to NASA
Mar 19th, 2012 at 5:00PM:
Space travel appears to have taken its toll on NASA astronauts. Those in space for more than a month have shown unexpected symptoms that could set back plans for longer deep-space missions.
Researchers scanned the eyes and brains of 27 astronauts who had spent an average of 108 days in space, either on space shuttle missions or aboard the International Space Station. In many of the astronauts, ...First woman in space turns 75
Mar 13th, 2012 at 4:00PM: Last week, Russia marked the 75th birthday of Russian space pioneer Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. In 1963, Tereshkova orbited the earth 48 times in three days, logging more flight time than all the previous American astronauts combined, and becoming the first and only woman to travel solo in space. Before launching into space, Tereshkova exclaimed, "Hey, sky, take your hat off!" ...Exclusive tour lets you go inside the Russian Space Program
Mar 7th, 2012 at 2:00PM:
If you missed your chance to sign up for Space Camp or just want a closer look at the Russian approach to space exploration, an exclusive tour inside the Russian Space Program this fall may be for you. Operated by the Mir Corporation (no relation to the former Russian Space Station), Inside the Russian Space Program will give you a near-space experience with opportunities to see a manned ...Video: cosmic time-lapse, 'Temporal Distortion'
Mar 1st, 2012 at 5:00PM:
"Temporal Distortion" from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.
If you're in the mood for taking a beautiful, cosmic, time-lapse break, consider this your opportunity. The gorgeous time-lapse images that make up this short film (which is part of a 23 minute expanded version) feature the Milky Way, Aurora, and plenty of other Earthly delights. An original score by renowned composer Bear McCreary ...
Training shuttle to be displayed in Seattle's Museum of Flight
Jan 22nd, 2012 at 9:00AM:
It looks like the Space Shuttle, but it isn't. It's made of plywood, for one thing, and it can't fly.
Yet it's a piece of aeronautics history and will soon grace Seattle's Museum of Flight. This training shuttle, more properly called the Full Fuselage Trainer, is a full-scale mockup that astronauts have used for practice since the 1970s. The museum originally hoped to get one of the four ...Video of the Day: Making tacos in space
Jan 2nd, 2012 at 6:30PM:
Preparing your own meals while on the road can be tough. You don't always have a proper kitchen stocked with all of the tools and appliances that you need. Ingredients can be difficult to find. Still, at least we always have gravity to help us out. Not so for astronauts. When it's dinner time, they have to assemble their tacos in zero gravity. The last thing that anybody wants is refried beans ...
Space Tourists: a cinematic journey to the ISS (w/ Audio Interview)
Dec 25th, 2011 at 10:00AM:
Space Tourists airs tonight on the Documentary Channel at 8pm & 11pm
When Anousheh Ansari boarded the International Space Station on September 20th, 2006, she became the first self-funded female, the first Iranian citizen, and the fourth human overall to enter the Earth's orbit as a coveted 'space tourist'.
After building and selling a large telecom business, Ansari had ...Discount space travel site launched
Nov 29th, 2011 at 3:30PM: A new website devoted to discount space travel was launched this week and has member-only benefits for joining.
"Space.Travel was created to fill a void in the burgeoning space tourism industry. With passenger space travel becoming a routine activity, outer space needed a destination website just like any other travel location. A one-stop website for all of your space trip planning," says ...NASA is looking for new astronauts!
Nov 19th, 2011 at 9:00AM: Anyone who has ever dreamed of going into space received a glimmer of hope this past week when NASA announced that they were looking for their next class of astronauts. This high profile "help wanted" ad had the dual effect of sending many of us scrambling to update our resumes, while simultaneously regressing to a point in our lives when we actually believed we could still grow-up to be an ...Video of the Day - Flying over Earth on the ISS
Nov 15th, 2011 at 11:00AM:
If you haven't seen this video since its emergence on the internet in the past two days, stop whatever you're doing, plug in your best headphones, quit your other applications (so you can watch in silky smooth HD), and full-screen this amazing compilation of moving images.
Edited by Michael König, this time-lapse was created by stitching together a series of still images shot by ...
Video of the Day: My Jet Pack
Oct 31st, 2011 at 6:30PM:
We've covered jet packs before here at Gadling. We've looked at water-powered versions, jet packs used for stunts and attempts to bring jet packs to the masses. However, as a viable means of transportation, jet packs still seem to fall a bit short. That said, they are perfectly suited as inspiration for an epic New Wave travel song. While we might have to wait years about we lift our feet off ...
Amazing photographic animation of Cassini's Saturn flyby
Sep 10th, 2011 at 12:00PM:
The Cassini unmanned probe to Saturn has been a resounding success. A joint project between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency, it's been studying the ringed planet since 2004. Cassini has been sending back detailed images of Saturn, its rings, and its moons and expanding our knowledge of the solar system.
Check out this amazing video made up of hundreds of ...
Space junk is out of control, scientists say
Sep 2nd, 2011 at 2:00PM: It's a dilemma faced by every adventure traveler: to find the perfect remote spot untouched by modernity, free from cell phones, television, and trash. Of course there is no such place, not even in space. In fact, the orbital detritus of modern life can be downright dangerous, scientists warn.
A new report from the National Research Council says there are so many bits of trash in orbit, ranging ...Fifty years ago today: youngest person in space throws up
Aug 6th, 2011 at 10:00AM: Fifty years ago today, Gherman Titov became the second man to go into orbit. The first was Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union on 12 April 1961. Titov was also Soviet, and flew aboard the Vostok-2 mission.
While Gagarin launched into enduring fame and became one of my personal heroes, Titov has been largely forgotten. That's a shame, because his flight included a number of records and advanced our ...National Geographic celebrates the last space shuttle mission ever
Jul 9th, 2011 at 8:00AM: Yesterday morning, at 11:30 AM Eastern Time, the Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off on the last shuttle mission ever. For fans and proponents of space exploration, it was a bittersweet moment to say the least. To celebrate what truly is the end of an era, National Geographic has updated their Space Shuttle Hub page with a look back at the storied vehicle's tragic and triumphant history.
At ...VIDEO: Astronaut's view of the world
May 31st, 2011 at 5:00PM:
Need a few moments of Zen? This video from NASA's Johnson Space Center has seven of them, traveling over the Earth from the coast of Namibia to the Amazon Basin to capture an astronaut's view of the world. The incredible images are narrated by Dr. Justin Wilkinson, a soothing astronaut who points out the many rivers, mountains, deserts, and other features shown on NASA's camera from far above. ...
