If you’ve ever been to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, you mig... ...Miss Baker. She was one of many animals sent to space , but the first ever recovered alive by NASA. In 1... ...iss Able, a rhesus monkey, were outfitted in tiny space suits and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/14/Bananas-for-Miss-Baker/(Composite image by NASA/European Space Agency)Have you ever seen the aurora borealis or... ...rth. Jupiter has them, too. NASA and the European Space Agency has recently been training the far-seeing... ...has recently been training the far-seeing Hubble Space Telescope on nea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/06/30/Jupiters-Northern-Lights/(Photo: NASA)Scott Kelly, an American astronaut, r... ...th after nearly a year on board the International Space Station. NASA physicians found that he's now 2 in... ...escribes other effects of spending a long time in space , including a shrunken heart, difficulty with bala... ...mass: Astronauts no longe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/Astronaut-Grew-2-Inches-While-in-Space-for-a-Year/(Artist's Interpretation by NASA/Mark A. Garlick)NASA's Kepler 2 telescope orbits the sun. It has the largest telescopic mirror outside of Earth orbit, which permits it to acquire detailed images of solar systems far, fa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/10/22/For-the-First-Time-Astronomers-Are-Studying-a-Solar-System-Being-Destroyed/The Buran program was the Soviet Union's response... ...gram was the Soviet Union's response to America's space shuttle program. It lagged far behind its US coun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/14/Abandoned-Wooden-Soviet-Spaceship-Looks-Like-a-Great-Playground-Feature/A few space firsts, from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader A... ...First person to run the Boston Marathon while in space : NASA astronaut Sunita Williams aboard the Intern... ...stronaut Sunita Williams aboard the International Space Station. She was an official participant,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/10/First-in-Space/(Photos: Daily Telegraph)Andreas Morgensen, 38, is... ...hagen. On Friday, he arrived at the International Space Station for a 10-day mission. Morgensen brought 2...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/06/Denmarks-First-Astronaut-Arrives-at-International-Space-Station-Brings-LEGOs/(Photo: US Army)The story goes that on April 12, 1... ...t cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was about to launch into space , becoming the first human being to do so. At the... ...tire of the shuttle bus before blasting off into space .This is one of many unusual traditions that astro... ...of many unusual traditions th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/30/Why-Russian-Cosmonauts-Pee-on-a-Bus-Tire-and-Other-Strange-Space-Rituals/NASA's New Horizons probe is revealing pictures of the most distant planet in our solar system with unprecedented resolution. Many people are seeing other images in the scarred surface of the planet. You can find an exce...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/14/The-Pluto-in-Pluto/(Images: NASA)NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is conducting humanity's first close observation...
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