Laws in space, overcoming physical and mental challenges of space travel and the future of space exploration were the main topics of discussion that leaders from Texas A&M and around the country delved into during the university's panel discussions at South by Southwest.
The first fully online SXSW event kicked off Tuesday and runs through today. University leaders got involved in the festival through the "Texas A&M Space Lab," which was meant to be unveiled last year but could not be when SXSW was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Skylab: The myth of the mutiny in space - BBC News
Ed Gibson was sitting between the two men, and remembers the can floating past from left to right before his eyes.
"Then I remember some bad noises coming from Bill, and a barf bag floating back from right to left," he says.
"We felt discouraged because we knew we had so much work to do - that's when we made our first mistake."
The Skylab space station was a research platform in orbit where astronauts helped scientists to study the human body's response to space flight, carried out experiments and made observations of the Sun and Earth. Skylab 4 was the final mission and as a result it had a long list of tasks to fulfil.
Bill Nelson's NASA Dreams Come True - The Atlantic
The Biden administration announced today that it intends to nominate Bill Nelson, a former senator from Florida, as the next NASA administrator. Nelson, who spent 30 years in Congress, flew on the space shuttle Columbia in 1986 alongside NASA astronauts, the last successful mission before the Challenger disaster. At the time, Nelson was a congressman representing Florida's Space Coast who sat on the House committee in charge of NASA's budget.
Turning NASA into something other than a boys' club has been a slow and bumpy process. In the 1970s, when the agency began to welcome women into roles once reserved for men, it sometimes misunderstood them. In 1983, as Sally Ride prepared to become the first American woman in space, NASA engineers asked her how many tampons they should pack for her one-week flight. "Is 100 the right number?" they asked.
World's Only Commercial Lab That Can Replicate Space Launching in Mass. – NBC Boston
The Berkshire Innovation Center in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, will soon host the only commercial facility in the world capable of replicating the space environment on Earth to test materials and equipment for future missions.
Baker administration officials and Berkshire County legislators on Wednesday announced an award of $429,000 from the Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (M2I2) to support the development of specialized equipment for testing the reliability and compatibility of spacecraft components by Electro Magnetic Applications, which is located at the BIC.
Many things are taking place:
Girl Scout's essay on space travel will soon be an out-of-this-world keepsake
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Girl Scout Laurel Schoen wrote an essay titled "What Space Travel Will be Like in 10 Years" ... and now it's going place.
"I think it would be cool to to write about that and car ships, which are space ships but they can control more easily," she said.
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It was one of 21 essays and artwork selected from a field of 700 entries submitted in by Girl Scouts from across the U.S., Japan and Germany.
Summaries from Biology of Spaceflight Papers | NASA
Dial in for audio plays about space, travel and family with the Rep | Arts & Theatre |
Rosie Seitz Ayers records voice parts for a short play as Michael Legg, the artistic director of the Montana Repertory Theatre, listens nearby in a studio at the University of Montana in February. The Rep is producing plays that can be accessed through smartphones.
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Silverman wrote it from the East Coast. The sound effects were made in New York, too, by a professional named Michael Costagliola. Raoul, who splits her time in California and New York, recorded her vocal part here in town.
Step 3, Artemis: Moon Missions as an Astronaut Testbed for Mars | NASA
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