Posts Tagged ‘NASA’

American Voices: NASA Developing 3D Food Printer

Aiming to feed astronauts efficiently on long space missions in the future, NASA has awarded a $ 125,000 grant to develop a printer that can create three-dimensional food items, which will use cartridges containing edible powders that have a shelf life of … The Onion Tweet This Post

NASA mulls spacewalk to fix space station leak

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two astronauts are preparing for a possible impromptu spacewalk Saturday to work on a coolant leak in the power system at the International Space Station. Tweet This Post

NASA: Space station power system radiator leaking

WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Space Station has a radiator leak in its power system. The outpost’s commander calls the situation serious, but not life-threatening. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Why NASA Is Firing Cell Phones Into Space

Today, in NASA Is the Best: The space agency this week took a handful of cheap but powerful smartphones, slapped them to a gigantic rocket and blasted them into low-earth orbit to see how they’d fare. The project, called PhoneSat, is one of those wacky experiments that seems at first to have nothing to do [...]

NASA Is Firing Cell Phones Into Space

Today, in NASA Is the Best: The space agency this week took a handful of cheap but powerful smartphones, slapped them to a gigantic rocket and blasted them into low-earth orbit to see how they’d fare. The project, called PhoneSat, is one of those wacky experiments that seems at first to have nothing to do [...]

American Voices: NASA Finds 2 Planets Ideal For Life

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has located two planets 1,200 light years away that are in the so-called Goldilocks zone of their solar system where liquid water might exist, making them ideal candidates for supporting life as we know it. The Onion Tweet This Post

American Voices: NASA To Capture Asteroid, Drag It Back To Earth

Eyeing a launch date in 2019, NASA plans to send a robotic vehicle into space that will capture an asteroid using a “baggie with a drawstring” mechanism, then pull the space rock back near Earth, allowing for close study by a later manned miss… The Onion Tweet This Post

[audio] NASA Is Baffled By The Failure Of Its Straw Shuttle

NASA Is Baffled By The Failure Of Its Straw Shuttle The Onion Tweet This Post

NASA Continues Search For Planet Capable Of Supporting NASA

HOUSTON—Nearly four years after launching its Kepler space telescope to search for worlds outside our solar system, NASA officials confirmed Tuesday they had yet to find a planet with sufficient resources to support the space-exploration agency and … Tweet This Post