ISS “Firestation” Experiment to Explore the Tops of Thunderstorms
A new four-minute ScienceCast video explores the strange phenomena coming from the tops of thunderstorms and details the new ISS experiment called “Firestation” that is…
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LED Lights May Help Prevent Astronaut Insomnia Aboard the ISS
By investing $11.4 million to change out aging fluorescent lights in the International Space Station’s U.S. Orbital Segment, NASA hopes to prevent astronaut insomnia and…
NASA Designing Space Habitat From Spare ISS Parts
Engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Texas have been busy putting together a prototype of a deep space station, which has been essentially…
Botched Pressure Test of Russian Soyuz Capsule Delays Launch by a Month
The Russian space capsule Soyuz was slated to launch on March 29th, but a botched pressure test has delayed the launch until May 15th. Soyuz…