Missed Times Square? Get Curiosity New Years Greeting from Home
New Years revelers at New York's Times Square this year were treated to an interplanetary holiday greeting. The message below was projected from the... Read more →
Study Suggests Enhanced Alzheimer’s Risk for Spacefarers
Plaques between neurons is one of the indicators of Alzheimer's Disease and seem to be increased with GCR exposure (Credits: Alzheimer's Disease... Read more →
Reanalysis of 1883 Observations Suggests a Billion-Ton Comet Buzzed Earth
On 12 August 1883 at 8:00 a.m., Mexico’s Zacatecas Observatory's boss Jose A. Bonilla was preparing to study the Sun’s corona when he observed an... Read more →
Escaping an F-111 Fighter Jet
The 1960's F-111 tactical fighter plane was one of the first vehicles to sport a crew escape system that jettisoned the entire front fuselage instead... Read more →
Canadian Experiment to Focus on the Deadliest Radiation
High energy neutron particles cause the most dangerous type of space radiation. Representing approximately 30 percent of all radiation the astronauts... Read more →
Apollo Engineer and NASA Institution Jesco von Puttkamer Dead at 79
Jesco von Puttkamer, died on December 27, 2012. (Credit: NASA) Jesco von Puttkamer, engineer who started working at NASA in 1962 in Wernher von... Read more →