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The Search for Extraterrestrial Life as We Don’t Know It

by Carolyn Wells January 19, 2023January 19, 2023

“Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings.”

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

Why the Moon Is Suddenly a Hot Commodity

by Aaron Gilbreath May 7, 2019October 19, 2022

The next space race is on.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature

Lettuce Try to Grow Dwarf Tomatoes Next

by Krista Stevens June 14, 2018October 19, 2022

When we all eventually move to Mars, we’re going to need to know how to grow our own veggies. NASA’s working on the science of farming in space.

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Science & Nature, Story

Welcome to the Center of the Universe

by Shannon Stirone March 15, 2018October 19, 2022

For the men and women who use the Deep Space Network to talk to the heavens, failure is not an option.

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Science & Nature

Welcome to the Center of the Universe

by Shannon Stirone March 15, 2018October 19, 2022

For the men and women who use the Deep Space Network to talk to the heavens, failure is not an option.

Posted inScience & Nature

The Engineers Who Can’t Quit Voyager

by mlegro August 7, 2017October 19, 2022

The nine flight-team engineers of the 1977 mission have been putting off retirement to see through one of NASA’s most successful spacecraft all the way to the end.

Four Women on the International Space Station, 2010
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Quotes, Science & Nature, Unapologetic Women

(Re)Merchandising NASA as a Feminist Act

by Pam Mandel June 17, 2017October 19, 2022

“I took the NASA shirts from the ‘boys’ section from where they were prominently displayed, and put them little kid eye level next to tank tops in the ‘girls’ section 20 feet away.”

Astronaut Yvonne Cagle (left); Jennifer Harris (center); the Mars 2001 Operations System Development Manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; and Astronaut Ellen Ochoa (right)
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

Mars Needs Women… Scientists

by Pam Mandel March 8, 2017October 19, 2022

At the top of the SLS will be the Orion, the capsule designed to take astronauts—men and, yes, now women—as far as Mars (come the 2030s).

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

A Year and a Day in a Mars Simulator: Reflections at the Halfway Mark

by Krista Stevens February 24, 2016October 19, 2022

Sheyna Gifford, mission physician for NASA’s sMars simulation, reflects on her year-and-a-day “off-planet,” six months in.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Researching Our Martian Heritage

by Aaron Gilbreath January 4, 2016October 19, 2022

In Nautilus, Tim Folger writes about how scientist are still debating whether organic and inorganic materials found on Martian meteorite ALH84001 contain evidence that life existed on Mars before it existed on Earth. If it did, then life could have spread to Earth from meteorites, which could make human beings ─ and other Earthly life ─ […]

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