A new lighting system is being built to help fight insomnia on the International Space Station by utilizing high-tech light-emitting diodes, replacing the fluorescent bulbs thar are currently in use. Something that remains somewhat unknown to the general republic is driving this change, around half of all the people who go to the ISS rely […]
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A power emergency on the International Space Station was solved on September 5th by two astronauts using makeshift tools created out of some spare parts and a toothbrush. “Two spacewalking astronauts successfully replaced a vital power unit on the International Space Station today defeating a stubborn bolt that originally delayed the fix with the help
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The Lyrid meteor shower that peaked on April 21, 2012, is caught here on film by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. The footage captures the sight of the meteors burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere. The image above is a screen capture of the video below taken on April 22, 2012 at
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Paolo Nespoli, a European Space Agency Astronaut and Flight Engineer of ISS Expedition 26/27 which extended from December 2010 to May 2011 took the following photo before leaving the International Space Station for home, at the end of his 6 month stay.
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When you’re the country’s astronaut who has clocked the most days in space, such as NASA’s Jeff Williams with his 534 days of space time, you still may not be a household name or a social media star, but when you bring home ultra high-def (UHD) footage of the Earth, the internet loves you.
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Coming up on New Year’s Eve, earthlings tend to celebrate milestones of the year passed, as well as look expectantly toward the future. Here, Planetsave brings you some of the best space coverage of 2014 in various media. The overall winner has to be the six-minute ultra-high definition timelapse video, with custom soundtrack, compiled by
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When it comes to citizen space travel, Richard Garriott de Cayeux doesn’t just talk the talk, he walks the walk (or space walk?)…um…Let’s just say he knows of that which he speaks. A genuine “citizen astronaut”, Richard is the 6th private citizen to travel into space (above that critical altitude of 62 or so miles), and,
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule has nearly finished its current stay at the International Space Station, being scheduled to depart around 7:06am on Tuesday, March 26th. The spacecraft successfully completed its most recent space docking at the ISS about three weeks ago, and will now be headed back to the Earth filled up with a variety of
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China appears to be getting ready to do further testing of its anti-satellite weaponry. The last test that they performed, the destruction of an old weather satellite, was very controversial because of the huge quantity of new space junk that it created. Space junk poses a significant risk to spacecraft and orbiting satellites, and it
An experimental version of an interplanetary Internet was recently used to successfully control a rover on the Earth from the International Space Station. The experiment, done by NASA and the ESA, used the Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocol to transfer messages and to demonstrate the technology that will eventually lead to Internet-like communications between space
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