How to lose your toolbag in space, Part 1

While trying to grease-up the Space Stations creaky solar-panel-rotating gears, some grease accidentally squirts into the toolbag, and astronaut H.S. Piper loses her bag while trying to clean it up. (In case you are wondering what happens if an Astronaut floats away, note the large white backpack on the back of the spacesuit; this is known as the “SAFER” unit and is a jet-powere More..d backpack to allow the astronaut to float back to the station during U.S. spacewalks. Read more

Recycling system will allow the astronauts to drink they own pee

If your kid will shout one day “when I grow up I wanna be an astronaut and drink pee” , don’t be alarmed - it’s how the things are done up there: NASA has been working on a waste recycling system for the International Space Station, which will be able to recycle all the ‘used’ water.

Simply put, it will process astronauts’ urine and then back to the station’s water supply to, as one of the current inhabitants nicely Read more

Force Field Shields are up! Set course to MARS!

Many things can go wrong on a trip to Mars, but the encounter with a solar storm ( “storms” with little warning and are already known to be a great threat to man) would be one of the worst.

The journey to Mars, however, would take about eighteen months, during which time it is almost certain that astronauts would encounter such a “solar storm”. Read more

If you go to MARS, stay there !

In an interview with AFP, moonwalker Buzz Aldrin stated that the first astronauts sent to Mars should be prepared to spend the rest of their lives there, in the same way that European pioneers headed to America knowing they would not return home.

“With what appears to be vast reserves of frozen water, Mars is nearer terrestrial conditions, much better than the Moon and any other place,”. Read more

The smell of space ‘uncovered’: Fried steak with hot metal

If you ever wondered what space smells like, well, NASA has solved this mystery for us, the humankind, once more. NASA has appointed Steven Pearce, a chemist also in charge of a fragrance manufacturing company, to recreate the smell of space in a laboratory. They also say this research will help astronauts prepare for space conditions. Now, either I am extremely stupid or just shocked, but how will the scent of space help any astronaut? I mean, you can feed him well before launch, the fried steak scent can drive a man wild, but still, it’s this so helpful? Read more

China walks in space with small steps

Fighter pilot Zhai Zhigang is the first Chinese astronaut who took a walk in space, as BBC reports. The astronaut emerged from the capsule orbiting earth, the Shenzhou VII capsule, around 08:30 GMT, made some steps into space while waving the Chinese flag. Read more

Computer virus traveled in space

Nasa has confirmed recently that the laptops carried to the ISS (International Space Station) in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG ; actualy a worm first detected on Earth in August 2007 and it works and behaves like a keylogger waiting to steal login names for popular online games. Read more