Aug 31 2010

Chilean Miners’ Suffering Like Soldiers’

Tag: Army, Astronauts, Battles and Incidents, Disasters and Accidents, Soldiers — Larry O'Hanlon @ 12:45 pm
Forget astronauts. The experiences of combat soldiers can teach the trapped miners even more, say psychologists.

Aug 25 2010

Adjustable Glasses Eyed for Astronauts

Tag: Astronauts, Eye, Inventions, NASA, Optics, Sight, Soyuz, Technology — Irene Klotz @ 2:21 pm
For astronauts with deteriorating eyesight, glasses that adjust with the flick of a finger may offer a solution.

Aug 19 2010

Mars Voyage Could Leave Crew Dangerously Weak

Tag: Astronauts, Gravity, NASA, Spacecraft — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 2:55 pm
A crew member aged between 30 and 50 returning could return home with the muscles of an 80-year-old.

Aug 17 2010

Channel Your Personal Power

Tag: Astronauts, Batteries, Biofuels, Candy, Cell Phones, Electricity, Electronics, Engineering, Fuel Cells, Laptops, Life Science, Sensors, iPods — Gene Charleton @ 7:00 am
A biofuel cell implanted in your arm could use oxygen and sugar to generate electricity.

Aug 12 2010

Science of Space Movies is Out of This World

Tag: Apollo Program, Asteroids, Astronauts — Jennifer Ouellette @ 6:37 am
Last week I snagged a seat for a fun event called "Out of This World: The Science of Space Movies" in LA where the science in sci-fi was tested to its limits.

Aug 04 2010

NASA Mind Training Tackles Motion Sickness

Tag: Astronauts, Cars, Health, Life Science, NASA, Navy, Ship, Spaceflight — Irene Klotz @ 3:37 pm
Do you feel woozy during long car rides? NASA researchers believe it's all in the mind and they have a training program to thwart it.

Aug 02 2010

Space Station Problem Shows How Shuttle Will Be Missed

Tag: Astronauts, Cooling, Disasters and Accidents, NASA, Space Shuttle, Space Station, Spaceflight — Irene Klotz @ 1:44 pm
After a cooling system breakdown, astronauts plan to hook up a critical spare part that can be delivered only by (the soon-to-be retired) space shuttle.

Jul 27 2010

Food for Mars: A Daunting Challenge

Tag: Astronauts, Earth, NASA, Nutrition, Packaging, Space Shuttle, Space Station, Taste — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 6:15 pm
Astronaut foods may appear indestructible, but many crew favorites don't retain their nutrition or palatability for even a year.

Jul 26 2010

Should Environmental Protection Extend to the Planets?

Tag: Astronauts, Mars, Moons, NASA, The Moon — Ray Villard @ 7:12 am
Do we have an ethical duty to respect and preserve the natural environments of neighboring planets and their moons?

Jul 24 2010

Space Station Robot Gets To Work

Tag: Astronauts, NASA, Robotics, Space Station — Irene Klotz @ 8:58 am
Two years after arriving at the International Space Station, the Canadian-built Dextre robot is ready to get to work.
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