Want to avoid premature wrinkles? Drink plenty of water, wear sunscreen, don't smoke, never frown or knit your brow, and try to limit your time in outer space.
Astronauts' skin takes quite a beating, even without gravity to weigh it down. In fact, spacefarers say they tend to get dry, flaky, and thin skin, depleted of natural oils that keep cells plump.
10 Things in Space That Come in Twos – NASA Solar System Exploration
This February’s calendar has lots of twos. There was 02-02-2022 and now 02-22-2022 – which some people are calling “Twosday.” To mark this day of duos, we bring you our list of things in the solar system that come in twos, or pairs.
DART’s target is NOT a threat to Earth . This asteroid system is a perfect testing ground to see if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective way to change its course, should an Earth-threatening asteroid be discovered in the future.
Fire-safety experiment among science gear launching to International Space Station this weekend |
A Cygnus cargo ship launching toward the International Space Station (ISS) this weekend will carry an experiment designed to improve fire safety on moon and Mars missions.
Called SoFIE ( Solid Fuel Ignition and Extinction ), the experiment is the latest in a series of in-orbit investigations that look at how fire behaves in microgravity.
Northrop Grumman rocket launches Cygnus cargo ship on 2-day trip to space station | Space
A private Cygnus freighter launched several tons of research and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday (Feb. 19).
The Northrop Grumman spacecraft launched on time atop an Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 12:40 p.m. EST (1740 GMT), kicking off a 1.5-day journey to the ISS.
Star twinkles 18 times in new James Webb Space Telescope image | Space
The James Webb Space Telescope finished the first major stage in its long process of aligning the observatory's 18-segmented primary mirror.
A single star that the observatory looked at was deliberately rendered 18 times into a hexagonal shape.
"The resulting image shows that the team has moved each of Webb’s 18 primary mirror segments to bring 18 unfocused copies of a single star into a planned hexagonal formation," NASA officials wrote in a blog post Friday (Feb. 18).
1 year later, Ingenuity helicopter still going strong on Mars | Space
The little chopper landed with NASA's Perseverance rover on the floor of Jezero Crater one year ago today (Feb. 18), tasked with showing that aerial exploration is possible on Mars despite the planet's thin atmosphere.
Ingenuity did just that over the course of five pioneering flights last spring, becoming the first rotorcraft ever to ply the skies of a world beyond Earth. And then it kept on flying, racking up a total of 19 Red Planet sorties — and counting.
Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping celebrates Lantern Festival with traditional music from space
China's Tiangong space station is still under construction but the astronauts aboard are already bringing aspects of Chinese traditions and culture into space.
Shenzhou 13 mission astronaut Wang Yaping , China's second woman in space and the first aboard the space station, played a song with a guzheng, a traditional Chinese string instrument, aboard the Tianhe space module (the core of Tiangong) on Feb.
Things About Space That Movies Get Wrong
Space has long enthralled and fascinated humanity, quite likely ever since the first human looked up at the night sky and saw bright dots in a vast ocean of darkness. Within the last century, humanity's knowledge and awareness about what lies beyond Earth has greatly increased.
That said, there's still a lot about space that needs to be discovered and understood. In works of fiction and popular culture — especially in movies — the gaps in man's knowledge of space have been filled by creativity and speculation.
Curiosity rover on Mars is watching the clouds drift by and they're beautiful | Space
The Curiosity rover , now nearing its 10th year of exploring the Red Planet, took imagery of clouds drifting over its exploration site on Mount Sharp (Aeolis Mons) with an aim to measuring their speed.
But it wasn't an easy task, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory noted in a blog post on Monday (Feb. 15), as Curiosity's cameras aren't designed to look up at the sky.
Not your grandparents' Apollo: Planetarium film captures NASA's new moon missions | CU Boulder
Banner image: NASA's Orion Spacecraft is slated to carry the first humans to leave Earth's orbit in more than 50 years. (Credit: NASA)
Who: Tickets still available
What: Forward! To the Moon public premiere
When: Friday, Feb. 18, 7 p.m.
Where: Fiske Planetarium
.@NorthropGrumman's #Cygnus space freighter is poised for launch on Saturday at 12:40pm ET. Two @NASA_Astronauts wi… https://t.co/2Cp9KmdHYx Space_Station (from Low Earth Orbit) Fri Feb 18 17:01:46 +0000 2022
Last week marked the final tests for the ACME flame studies on the @Space_Station! Since 2017, the ACME team has:… https://t.co/WZqhZbn8Jg ISS_Research (from ISS Program Research Office) Fri Feb 18 16:45:38 +0000 2022
For those in the mid-Atlantic region, weather permitting, you may catch a glimpse of the rocket across the sky. Lea… https://t.co/WGp0R8ZLwP NASA_Wallops (from Wallops Island, VA) Sat Feb 19 14:29:26 +0000 2022
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