"The firm Bigelow Aerospace has launched its second inflatable space module, Genesis 2, taking another step towards its goal of building crewed, inflatable space stations that could be leased to
“I'm going why am I picking up NASA or the space station, then I just went to bed. Sure enough put it on in the morning and screamed... 'It's NASA! It's a space station! Why are we getting this?'” OMG
"Efforts to reboot critical Russian computer systems aboard the ISS continued Friday after a long night of troubleshooting by the outpost's cosmonaut crew." Note the emphasis on the Russian-
"NASA is ready and willing to share the international space station (ISS) with other U.S. government agencies and commercial firms once construction of the $100 billion orbital outpost is finishe
"...a reactor fuelled entirely by thorium would have significant advantages over conventional uranium or mixed-fuel reactors." They're a smart bunch, those Scandinavians.
"...the company has set its sights on something much, much bigger: a project to assemble full-blown space villages at a work site between Earth and the moon, then drop them to the lunar surface,
"We have seen the future of gas stations, and it’s very artistic. Now if only more buildings in Los Angeles looked like this…" That's ... erm ... interesting architecture?
"Water is a precious commodity on the International Space Station and every drop is recycled via the Station’s water conduction unit. And when we say every drop, we mean *every* drop." Still
“At this point, we feel we’re ready to move ahead and tackle what will be the largest challenge to date for Bigelow Aerospace…to develop a habitat that will actually be capable of supporting a crew.”
"ISS EarthKAM is a NASA sponsored program that provides stunning, high quality photographs of our planet taken from the Space Shuttle and International Space Station." ZOMFG! Awesome; great
"East Japan Railway Company has become the world’s first railway company to develop a humanoid robot guide." It doesn't perform too well so far, but apparently gets by on charm - punters fin
"With the space shuttle Atlantis scheduled to launch on Sunday, construction of the unfinished International Space Station (ISS) is set to pick up again after a 3.5-year hiatus." About blood