Thanks to not-so-recent advances in technology, we can shoot just about anything into space, or at the very least into Earth's orbit. At first, we launched spy satellites during the Cold War, but once ...
As my arms lift from my sides, and the rest of my body follows suit toward the ceiling of a modified Boeing 727—next to scientists, astronauts, engineers and activists—I think, “How did I get here?” I ...
NASA's two stranded astronauts are approaching a year in space, but what could that mean for their bodies? In June 2024, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were due to stay for one week on the ...
As you can probably imagine, we get tips on a lot of really interesting projects here at Hackaday. Most are pretty serious, at least insofar as they aim to solve a specific problem in some new and ...
Indian Air Force officer Shubhanshu Shukla flew to space in a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft with the Crew Dragon capsule after several delays from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The two-week-long ...
Performing CPR on a space station in microgravity involves doing a handstand on a person's chest and pushing against the ...
At 9:31 a.m. EDT yesterday, Katy Perry, in full hair and makeup wearing a designer cobalt blue bodysuit, was ready to make history. As she boarded flight NS-31 to make an 11-minute roundtrip journey ...