Record Setting Asteroid 2012 DA14 to Safely Pass Earth
On February 15, Asteroid 2012 DA14 will make the closest approach of any similarly sized object ever recorded that has not collided with the planet.... Read more →
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Crackling Sun Spits Out Coronal Mass Ejection
On January 31, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured a coronal mass ejection (CME) shooting Earthwards from the Sun. The CME was expected... Read more →
Sixteen Minutes from Home
Day of Remembrance 2013 service at the Space Mirror, Kennedy Space Center (Credits: NASA). On February 1, the Astronaut Memorial Foundation held... Read more →
The Cost of Exploring Space: Film vs. Reality
They say that space really is the final frontier and the media (probably even more so than the scientists) love the fact that it's all still so... Read more →
Challenger Astronaut’s Brother Recalls Boundary-Breaking Childhood
Astronaut Ronald E. McNair died on the Challenger space shuttle 27 years ago this week, a mission specialist on his second spaceflight. McNair's... Read more →
Will Overview Effect Make Everyone a Better Person?
Overview Effect, the feeling frequently described as "awe" experienced by astronauts upon seeing their home planet from space, is getting a lot of... Read more →
![A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).](https://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fluid-dynamics-trajectory-analysis-50x50.jpg)
