It’s no secret that some of the brightest people on earth work for NASA. We all know they can build spaceships, rockets, and fancy space suits. But who knew they are to thank for a lot of the things we use in life every single day! Some of the many products that came from NASA…
I’ve always wondered this. With all of the gravity up in space and everything going on is there any truth to the fact that it changes the height of astronauts? It is! People can grow about 3% taller while in space. For the average six foot tall person that’s about two inches. Once they get…
Since the first Grammy Awards ceremony in 1959, the statuette presented to winners is a gold-plated gramophone, also known as a phonograph or record player. The name Grammy is an homage to the gramophone and its revolutionary impact on the music industry. Some innovative students at UCONN could be part of NASA history. NASA has…
If you’re a foodie and into space this news is very exciting. Astronauts recently were able to grow peppers on the Space Station for the first time. Which they then used to make tacos! I hope it was a Tuesday. I’d love a space taco. Probably beats that other astronaut food. Not to be outdone…
Unless you’ve been living under a cardboard Amazon package lately you probably saw that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos successfully traveled to space and back this morning in just 11 minutes. He brought his brother and two others with him as they became the first human civilians to actually get into outer space by crossing the…
If you haven’t been following all the Mars news lately there is some pretty cool stuff happening. First of all… we got there. Which is already pretty amazing. Now, NASA’s tiny helicopter made a successful first flight on Mars Monday morning. It didn’t break any speed records or anything but it did hover about 10…
With election day coming up tomorrow today’s mystery is how do astronauts vote from space? As you might imagine it’s very similar to how military members vote via absentee with a few additional things because ya’know… space. This is how it’s explained from NASA… Like other forms of absentee voting, voting from space starts with…