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Sandra MagnusIt's a myth that Tang was developed for NASA but it is true that the agency did use the foul orange drink for many years on its flights. Food has never been NASA's strong point but astronaut Sandra Magnus is proving that, while food in space may not be 21st century, it's not the Stone Age either.Magnus is finishing up a five-month tour aboard NASA's Expedition 18 and blogs at length about the food. Surprisingly, she has few complaints. "It turns out that both NASA and Ru
In space, no one can hear you bitch: The only people allowed to go into space are extraordinarily rich people like Mark Cuban who can actually pay Russians to launch them into orbit, or the astronauts in government space programs, who are qualified via a lot of fancy, rarefied knowledge such as how to fly jets and how to fuse four protons into one single alpha particle. Fat, farty-smelling old Earth-bound you and handsome, Aqua-Velva-scented me will never have the opportunity to escape the gra
Not a reject prop from a Bond film but the actual artist rendition of what the Guinness 250 anniversary submarine is going to look like. Guinness Brewery celebrates its 250th anniversary this year. To put that into context, Thomas Jefferson was only 15 years old when Arthur Guinness brewed his first famous stout. It's highly unlikely that Jefferson or Arthur could dream of how the brewer would reward one lucky drinker on its semiquincentennial: a trip to outer space!
It's one of the great stranded-on-an-island questions that inevitably comes up at a bar -- would you drink your own pee to survive? You might say no at first, but when presented with a series of qualifying factors -- there is no other water available or your shipwrecked mates have island fever and are holding a cutlass to your head -- you inevitably crack and agree that you would in fact recycle your own urine. This might make for funny barroom jokes, but there are three guys who wouldn't be lau
Wired put up a list of 10 space-rocking astronaut songs" in honor of the return of the astronauts with the shuttle Endeavour.
Now, while I can totally support their inclusion of the Pixies' "Planet of Sound" and -- of course -- Bowie's "Space Oddity," I cannot brook the fact that they include Billy Thorpe's "Children of the Sun" at the exclusion of Peter Schilling's "Major Tom (Coming Home)." If you're going to include one piece of musical detritus, why not include the one that sucks least?
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