A French air hostess will become one of Europe's pioneer space tourists after picking a chocolate wrapper out of the rubbish and finding a winning number in a competition to fly to the upper reaches of the earth's atmosphere. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A private space company's second shot at flying its low-cost rocket into orbit was an apparent partial success tonight. Space Exploration Technologies' two-stage Falcon 1 rocket launched from a remote seven-acre island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The first stage worked well; the second stage apparently entered an oscillation and telemetry has been lost. picked by Fanatic 3 years ago

One of two spiders sent to the orbiting laboratory aboard the space shuttle Endeavour last week was added to the lost property list after the crew checked its tank and found it empty. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A Japanese astronaut plans to throw a boomerang inside a space station to test whether it can fly in zero gravity. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Studies have shown the dangers of space madness, but we have to admit: It makes for good entertainment. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

Hold on to your hats, or in this case, your helmets: Scientists have finally pinpointed the so-called edge of space — the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

"The Truth Is Out There". We've all heard that phrase. Some people believe that the truth has already been found but is being kept secret. Here are 10 of the *craziest space conspiracies out there.

*or are they? picked by FastTurtle 2 years ago

Outer space smells like fried steak, hot metal and welding a motorbike, according to Nasa scientists. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Weddings in space could be right around the corner, and experts figure the inevitable cosmic consummation will be just around the next corner. The Japanese firm First Advantage and the U.S.-based private spaceflight firm Rocketplane Global, Inc., announced last week they will host weddings in space for about $2.3 million (240 million yen) apiece. For all we know, sex in space has already taken p... read full post picked by Jetka 1 year ago

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has officially started its "Warm Mission" after taking its first shots of the cosmos since it ran out of coolant in May. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Mitsubishi Electric Corp and IHI Corp have agreed to work with several companies, to develop technology for a solar station in space. It will take about $21 billion to fund this Japanese project and about 20 years to try to make it happen.That is a lot of time and money. picked by kakana 3 months ago

Hey, Kurt Vonnegut wrote this short story. His talent trumps any "nsfw" rules. :) “What was the dirtiest story I ever wrote?” wrote Kurt Vonnegut in “Palm Sunday.” “Surely ‘The Big Space f**k,’ the first story of literature to have ‘f**k’ in its title. It was probably the last short story I will ever write. I did it for my frie... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Students from OSU's Radiation Physics Laboratory built and successfully launched a cosmic radiation detector this summer that, carried by a helium-filled balloon, reached 104,000 feet in altitude. The detector recorded radiation levels at the varying altitudes -- information that will be used by NASA to develop instrumentation for space flight. picked by Dork 1 year ago

A space program worker deliberately damaged a computer that is supposed to fly aboard shuttle Endeavour in less than two weeks, an act of sabotage that picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

This space ship is in excellent condition! Only 300 million Intergalactic miles, 4 passenger, no meteor dents, possibly needs reactor seals and recharged flux capacitor, 1 owner. picked by Bornbad 11 months ago

NASA moved space shuttle Endeavour a step closer to liftoff without an essential part: the "u." picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Molecular biologist Robert Ferl of the University of Florida and colleagues studied wheat seeds descended from plants that flew on the Russian Mir space station. The progenitor plants were in space for 167 days in 1991. When they were brought back to Earth, the plants gave rise to viable offspring seeds.

*Just keep it away from the Tribbles. picked by kakana 4 months ago

"A space elevator is one of those ideas from 1950s-style futurism that are so wacky they might just work."

This is not a dupe it is a followup on a much older post. picked by buddha 2 years ago

Deep space probes beyond Jupiter can't use solar power because they're too far from the sun. So they rely on a certain type of plutonium, plutonium-238. picked by kakana 7 months ago

Be a part of exploration -- one step, one "groove" at a time! Upload your photo and show friends and family your space moves! picked by bornbad 6 months ago