Space Station

Heavy-Lift Rocket Launch Seen from Space

We all know what a big rocket launch looks like from the ground, but this is what it looks like…

11 years ago

The Olympic Torch That Went Around the World… Literally

Ever since the first relay for the 1936 summer Olympic games in Berlin, Olympic torches have traditionally been used to…

11 years ago

Volunteer Firefighter Readies To Face Space Station’s Biggest Nemesis

Facing a fire in space? It's among the most catastrophic situations possible, according to NASA, so the agency spends a…

11 years ago

Ghostly Moon Crowns Pictures Beamed To Earth In Astronaut’s Twitter Feed

A crescent moon hovering above Earth's delicate atmosphere. Green aurora flickering over Siberia. Space is a beautiful place, and we're…

11 years ago

Fun New Kickstarter is a Space Station Detector

There's a coffee shop in Pasadena, California that has a cool little device that lights up whenever the International Space…

11 years ago

‘Stupid Astronaut Tricks’ Spread The Joy of Space To New Astronaut Class

You sure couldn't hide those grins on television from the Astronaut Candidate Class of 2013 when the call came from…

11 years ago

Can A Mega-Magnetic Field Protect Astronauts From Radiation?

A bunch of people really, really want to go to the Red Planet on the proposed one-way Mars One trip;…

11 years ago

UPDATE: Six-Hour Spacewalk Yields Success for UrtheCast Cameras

UPDATE: As of Tuesday morning (Eastern time), UrtheCast announced that telemetry was successfully received, "contrary to the online broadcast of…

11 years ago

Watch Live As Russian Spacewalkers Try To Install Urthecast Cameras Again

Think of this as Camera Install, Take 2. Russian spacewalkers are going to take another crack at installing the high-definition…

11 years ago