Now, Scots will soon learn the skills required in a lecture to be beamed from the International Space Station as astronaut Dr Tom Marshburn explains his work while orbiting the Earth at 17,500 miles per hour.
The ultimate in video conferencing will take place at the World Extreme Medicine meeting in Edinburgh in November and the audience will be the first outside of US government and medical institutions to be given a full lecture from space.
ESO VLT investigates rocky exoplanets orbiting a distant star - SlashGear
Space colony sim Starmancer is now orbiting in early access | Rock Paper Shotgun
The station grows people and places stored personalities into new bodies, which means you have a large supply of disposable souls.
The people will mutter and grumble if things aren’t comfortable, and will all-out mutiny if you start to eject any quarrelsome elements among them. That’s entirely up to you, though. Contentment is merely a side-effect of survival.
Part of Apollo 11 Spacecraft May Still be Orbiting the Moon, New Study Says
Apollo 11 made history on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped on the moon for the first time. However, people still wonder about the fate of the 'Eagle' module that took the astronauts from the Command and Service Module (CSM) to the lunar surface.
The Eagle module was a combination of two spacecraft – the descent stage and the ascent stage. While the former is still on the moon, somewhere around the Sea of Tranquillity, the whereabouts of the ascent stage were unknown.
Superflares may be less harmful to exoplanets than previously thought, study shows | UW News
Astronomers have long suspected that superflares, extreme radiation bursts from stars, can cause lasting damage to the atmospheres — and thus habitability — of exoplanets . A new study published Aug.
"We’ve known these are big flares, much larger than we see on our own sun," said co-author James Davenport , a research assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Washington.
Space Junk: Is it a disaster waiting to happen? - BBC Science Focus Magazine
In May 2021, a hole was found in a robotic arm aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The suspected culprit was a piece of rogue space junk. While thankfully no astronauts were injured, it has re-focussed attention on the growing problem of orbital debris.
It's easy to forget that just seven decades ago the Moon was the only thing orbiting the Earth. On 1 January 2021 there were 6,542 satellites in orbit. Tellingly, only just over half of them were active.
Volcano Watch: A spaceborne sentinel keeps watch over Hawaiian volcanoes | Hawaii Tribune-Herald
A GOES infrared image of Hawaii Island from July 31. The warmer color region in the northern portion of the island is the recent brush fire.
Image courtesy NOAA-NASA One of the first images collected by GOES-17 upon its arrival in orbit, before shifting to its permanent position at 137° west longitude. Image from May 20, 2018.
Boeing's Starliner heads back to hangar after valve issue thwarts test launch for NASA | Space
Editor's note : By 2:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT), the rollback was complete. This story has been updated to include a photo of the rocket and capsule on its way back inside.
Boeing's Starliner capsule will trudge back inside for more checks after skipping a Tuesday launch attempt when indications suggested a problem with a valve in the vehicle's propulsion system.
UPDATE: Long Beach Got Spectacular View of Intl'l Space Stn Orbiting Nearly Directly Over Us
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