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The purchase is part of a plan to send two Saudi astronauts to the International Space Station. NASA Saudi Arabia plans to send its first female astronaut into space, Axiom confirmed to Insider. The country bought two seats on a SpaceX ship as part of a plan to send Saudi astronauts to the ISS. The […]
Don’t look at social distancing as forced imprisonment in your own home — think of it as an extended opportunity to figure out who the remaining Masked Singers are! The Group C section of the competition continued this week, with Astronaut, Swan, T-Rex, Rhino and Night Angel belting their hearts out (or trying to) in […]
RELATED STORIES Patrick J. Adams‘ next TV workplace will have a slightly different dress code. The former Suits star — who recently left the USA Network drama after seven seasons — will play Maj. John Glenn in National Geographic’s The Right Stuff, based on Tom Wolfe’s 1979 non-fiction book of the same name. Glenn was […]
Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank is signing on for a star-filled new series: She’ll lead Away, Netflix’s upcoming astronaut drama, TVLine has learned. The series focuses on Emma Green (Swank), an American astronaut with a husband and teen daughter. Emma is the commander of an international space crew that undertakes a very dangerous mission. Per […]
An editorial collaboration that celebrates the biggest ideas in our world. Join us every week for new stories and mind-bending video. Angelo Vermeulen’s four-month vacation to Hawaii was unlike any other. Rather than splaying out on a beach, he sat locked inside a bubble atop the Mauna Loa volcano. Instead of lounging around in a […]
Quoting Winston Churchill seems harmless enough, but a former NASA astronaut found out the hard way that it’s impossible to please everyone on Twitter, after apologizing for citing the revered British leader. Scott Kelly, who has made multiple trips into space, issued an apology on Sunday after being hounded by furious netizens about a tweet […]
TED Conference / Flickr Former astronaut Chris Hadfield has flown on three space missions and spent nearly half a year in orbit. People could have landed on Mars “decades ago” if we’d really wanted to, Hadfield said, but such missions may have been deadly due to the state of rocket and spaceship technologies. Even if […]
It’s a somber day for spaceflight, as NASA astronaut Alan Bean has died at the age of 86 after falling ill during a trip. He was the fourth person to walk on the Moon, flying aboard Apollo 12, and proved crucial to humanity’s understanding of its closest celestial neighbor. He was the only geologist to […]
Sarah Jacobs/Business Insider Retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly had four missions in space, including a 340-day trip aboard the International Space Station in 2015-2016. On our “Success” podcast, he describes himself as a distracted kid who figured out his life later than his identical twin brother Mark, who also became an astronaut. He shared some […]
Astronauts aboard the ISS drink recycled pee for a reason: we can only bring so much food and water to to space. Imagine how much more we need to take for that year-long journey to Mars. Since bringing more resources means higher costs — the heavier a spacecraft is, the more fuel it needs, after […]
