In "Away," a new sci-fi show on Netflix, Academy Award winner Hilary Swank steps into the role of commander Emma Green to lead an international team of astronauts on the first crewed mission to Mars. The show draws heavily from the real world of human spaceflight.
While humans aren't yet traveling to Mars, NASA , for instance, aims to launch a crewed mission to the Red Planet by the mid-2030s . So King Soundworks in California , the sound team for "Away," had to strike a balance between fact and fiction to ensure that elements of the series like spacewalks were believable but still cinematic.
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Trump's Space Rhetoric Is Holding America Back - The Atlantic
In mentioning manifest destiny, Trump has resurrected an idea most commonly found in history books. This was the philosophy that white Americans used to describe their westward expansion in the 19th century, led by their conviction that they were ordained by God to spread their will across the continent. The doctrine ignored the existence and rights of the Indigenous people in their path, who were driven from their homes and slaughtered.
In 2006, during the George W. Bush administration, NASA formally adopted a new vocabulary that many of its workers were already using as more women became astronauts: Spaceflight with astronauts would officially be known as "human" or "crewed," not "manned." Leland Melvin, a retired NASA astronaut, often uses this anecdote to convey the power of language: When he once asked a group of young children if any of them wanted to be astronauts, only boys raised their hands.
If bacteria stick together, they can survive for years in space | Science News for Students
Balls of Deinococcus bacteria as thin as five sheets of paper were placed on the outside of the International Space Station. They stayed there for three years. Microbes in the heart of those balls survived. The group's outer layers had shielded them from the extremes of space.
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Akihiko Yamagishi is an astrobiologist. He works at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Tokyo, Japan. He was part of a team that sent dried pellets of Deinococcus bacteriato space in 2015. These radiation-resistant microbes thrive in extreme places, such as Earth's stratosphere.
Robert W. Gore, Inventor of Gore-Tex Fabric, Dead at 83 | Voice of America - English
Gore discovered a new form of a polymer in 1969 at a company lab in Newark, Delaware. His father, who began the company, asked Bob Gore to research a new way to manufacturer plumber's tape at a low cost using PTFE, commonly known as DuPont's Teflon, The News Journal of Wilmington reported.
The son figured out that by stretching PTFE with a sudden yank, the polymer expanded by 1,000 percent. The resulting product, known as ePTFE, created a microporous structure. The introduction of Gore-Tex technology came seven years later.
What to Stream: 'Challenger: The Final Flight' and other NASA movies - Entertainment -
The four-part docuseries "Challenger: The Final Flight" — which details the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster — landed Wednesday on Netflix. Created by Steven Leckart and Glen Zipper and produced by J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot imprint, the series is an incredibly illuminating depiction of the lead-up to the disaster and its aftermath.
In four efficient episodes, "Challenger: The Final Flight" illustrates the space program's importance as a symbol of national pride, as well as NASA's front-facing efforts to diversify the organization. With a focus on the space shuttle as a groundbreaking reusable spacecraft, the promise of civilian space travel seemed imminently tangible, especially with the high-profile selection for "the first teacher in space," to travel aboard the Challenger and offer lessons.
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