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'Scenes from the ISS' shows the world from an astronaut's eyes

Friday, June 26, 2009 - 3:39pm

You may have seen the shots of Russia's Sarychev volcano eruption NASA posted earlier this week. Well, the folks over at the Boston Globe's Big Picture went through the archives of other photos taken from the ISS, and have dug...

NASA to fire a big exploding rocket at the moon

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 1:03pm

Now this sounds fun: NASA has plans to fire a rocket into the moon to create a six-mile high explosion. Why? To see if there's any water there that we might be able to use if we ever colonize our...

Hubble-fixing tools aren't for sale at Sears just yet

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 8:04am

Here are some tools you're not likely to find in any garages near you: the tools used by the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis to repair the Hubble telescope. Instead of a workbench, astronauts have a workstation that mounts...

Japanese astronaut surfs on a magic carpet in space

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 7:36am

Leave it to the Japanese to make sending an astronaut into space as fun as it always should be. Sure, there are scientific reasons to go to space, but where's the whimsy? Jaxa astronaut Koichi Wakata was given a set...

Robotic spiders may be headed to the moon

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 2:15pm

The next visitors to the moon may not be humans. No, instead they may be these robotic spiders, designed to quickly swarm across the lunar surface, collecting data through sensors and cameras. The concept is an entry in the Google...

Star Trek in LEGO: 15 unearthly designs

Kevin Hall

Friday, May 8, 2009 - 4:14am

You can make almost anything out of a pile of LEGO bricks. Lucky for us, plenty of LEGO fans are also in love with Star Trek, and they're not afraid to boldly go where no other LEGO playsets have gone...

Orion spacecraft gets dunked in the Atlantic in first sea trials

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 10:04am

For the first time since the 1960s, NASA is testing a spacecraft in the water, seeing how seaworthy it is after a splashdown. It looks a lot like the Apollo spacecraft from years ago, but this Orion capsule is bigger...

First lunar greenhouses planned for 2012

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 9:17am

Believe it or not, but we may have our first gardens on the surface of the moon as soon as 2012. As part of Google's Lunar X Prize, Paragon Space Development Corporation and Odyssey Moon have developed pressurized greenhouses designed...

Insane 65,000-brick LEGO space shuttle may as well be the real thing

Kevin Hall

Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 11:07am

I'm almost a little embarrassed to admit that I first thought this was a photo of a real space shuttle. Two Japanese LEGOsmiths used a whopping 65,000 bricks and 1,590 man hours to complete the stunning diorama, which even simulates...

Orion spacecraft mockup shows up in Washington

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 8:18am

Come along with NASA as the space agency regresses back to the space capsule era, starring Orion, which you see here. Sitting outside the Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, the mockup is on its way...

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'Scenes from the ISS' shows the world from an astronaut's eyes

NASA to fire a big exploding rocket at the moon

Hubble-fixing tools aren't for sale at Sears just yet

Japanese astronaut surfs on a magic carpet in space

Robotic spiders may be headed to the moon

Star Trek in LEGO: 15 unearthly designs

Orion spacecraft gets dunked in the Atlantic in first sea trials

First lunar greenhouses planned for 2012

Insane 65,000-brick LEGO space shuttle may as well be the real thing

Orion spacecraft mockup shows up in Washington

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