Category: Space

Former Clevelander researching feasibility of living on Mars

This photo provided by the University of Hawai’i News shows the six astronaut-like crew members entered a geodesic dome at approximately 4:50 p.m. on Jan. 19, 2017, at a site located 8,200 feet above sea level on Mauna Loa on the island of HawaiE i, which will serve as their home for the next eight months. From left, Joshua Ehrlich, Laura Lark, Sam Payler, Brian Ramos, Jay Bevington and Ansley Barnar.

Weekend Box Office preview

While much of America is focused on this weekend’s Super Bowl, there are those who do “not” have interest in the game. But there are still entertaining options to be found in this week’s Box Office preview with Raphael Seth.

National Space Society’s Space Settlement Summit Draws Industry…

An enormously successful first annual Space Settlement Summit hosted by the National Space Society occurred on January 10-11, 2017, in Santa Monica, California. With Elon Musk calling for the colonization of Mars, and Jeff Bezos looking forward to millions of people living and working in space, space settlement is an idea whose time has come.

Lunar eclipse

Prod the kids outside, give them hot chocolate and gaze toward the moon in the east. Enjoy the evening penumbral lunar eclipse on Friday.

Lake Powell and Grand Staircase-Escalante Viewed From Orbit

This panorama, photographed by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, shows nearly the full length of Lake Powell, the reservoir on the Colorado River in southern Utah and northern Arizona. Note that the ISS was north of the lake at the time, so in this view south is at the top left of the image.

Hubble Space Telescope captures brilliant star death

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare event-a star going through a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary nebula.It sheds its outer layers of gas and dust out into the surrounding space. It sheds its outer layers of gas and dust out into the surrounding space.

Six from B.C. in space race to become Canada’s next astronaut

And that’s what the space agency is looking for in the next two Canadians who’ll get to put the coolest job title on their LinkedIn profile. In a list released this week, 72 people are in the running to fill those two spots, including six with ties to B.C. He has a doctorate in medicine from the University of Toronto a PhD in exercise physiology from UBC, amongst other certifications.

CCAC considers design themes for 2019 and 2020…

The grave marker for the final resting place of Mary Golda Ross, an engineer of Cherokee lineage whose work helped develop the spacecraft for the Gemini and Apollo space programs, bears the epitaph, “She Reached for the Stars” to the right of a rocket being launched. Dressed in her native Cherokee ceremonial dress, a then 96-year-old Mary Golda Ross is escorted to the 2004 opening of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian.

Boys are from Mars, Girls are from Foster Homes

Here’s the thing, anybody brave enough to head to the theaters in the dog days of February knows to lower their standards. The perennial post-Oscar dumping ground is the home of clusterfucks and misfit toys which studios either couldn’t or wouldn’t put the money behind.

Review: “The Space Between Us”

T… — The NBA announced the contestants for three of the biggest competitions at this year’s All-Star Weekend on Thursday night.In the Three-Point shooting contest, de… — The Australian ambassador to the United States met with Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus and chief strategist, Steve Bannon, at the White House Th… — Gary Oldman plays Nathaniel Shepherd, the visionary head of a company that specializes in space exploration.

Martian melodrama ‘The Space Between Us’ crashes to Earth

There are movies about the wonders of space travel – a short list would include “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Solaris” and “Interstellar” – that seek to test the audience’s perceptual limits, altering our sense of time and place so as to usher us into the vast frontier of the unknown. And then there are movies like “The Space Between Us” – though happily, not too many – which take the vast frontier of the unknown and whittle it down to something obvious, familiar and dispiritingly pocket-sized.

Astronaut Twins Give Clues to Health Hazards of Spaceflight

Long-term space flight appears to trigger a number of genetic and biological changes in astronauts, according to preliminary results from a NASA study. Researchers compared astronaut Scott Kelly, who returned home last March after nearly a year aboard the International Space Station, and his identical twin Mark, a retired astronaut.

Gravitas Picks Up ‘One Under The Sun’; Area 23A To ‘Dig Two Graves’

Gravitas Ventures has secured the worldwide rights to the sci-fi drama One Under the Sun , which will premiere February 25 in Los Angeles followed by a theatrical and digital release March 21. Directed by Vincent Tran and Riyaana Hartley, the pic stars Bollywood actress and former Miss India Pooja Batra as Kathryn Voss, an astronaut and Mars mission commander who is the only survivor of a space accident and emerges with no memory of the event and with an extraordinary gift. Longing to return her husband and terminally ill daughter, Voss instead is sequestered in a secret government facility, forcing her to become a fugitive from a government that fears her gift.

Queen Elizabeth Prize Awarded to Inventors Who Revolutionized Digital Imaging

Winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering announced in London today, Michael Tompsett Nobukazu Teranishi and Eric Fossum . Along with George Smith they will share the A 1million prize for combined contribution to digital imaging have been honored with the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize, a British award that celebrates world-changing innovations in engineering that have been of global benefit to humanity.

Queen Elizabeth Prize Awarded to Inventors Who Revolutionized Digital Imaging

Winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering announced in London today, Michael Tompsett Nobukazu Teranishi and Eric Fossum . Along with George Smith they will share the A 1million prize for combined contribution to digital imaging have been honored with the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize, a British award that celebrates world-changing innovations in engineering that have been of global benefit to humanity.

Queen Elizabeth Prize Awarded to Inventors Who Revolutionized Digital Imaging

Winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering announced in London today, Michael Tompsett Nobukazu Teranishi and Eric Fossum . Along with George Smith they will share the A 1million prize for combined contribution to digital imaging have been honored with the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize, a British award that celebrates world-changing innovations in engineering that have been of global benefit to humanity.

Queen Elizabeth Prize Awarded to Inventors Who Revolutionized Digital Imaging

Winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering announced in London today, Michael Tompsett Nobukazu Teranishi and Eric Fossum . Along with George Smith they will share the A 1million prize for combined contribution to digital imaging have been honored with the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize, a British award that celebrates world-changing innovations in engineering that have been of global benefit to humanity.

NASA: Space Alters Your DNA In Bizarre Ways

Does going into space fundamentally change our biology? It’s not a casual question. Human beings evolved to live in a very specific ecological niche, and no matter how tough DNA is , nature never planned for us to sit on a pile of explosives and fling ourselves into an airless void full of rocks and ionizing radiation.

Earth narrowly dodges three large asteroids

A car-sized asteroid narrowly missed the Earth on Monday, January 30, six days after another asteroid the size of a house had a similar near-miss, and 10 days after a third passed by that was about the size of a killer whale. This artist’s rendition released 20 April, 2005 by NASA shows a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun Asteroid 2017 BH30 zipped past the Earth just 32,200 miles away at its closest approach.