Frankly, American history classes in public school... ...t be more than a day or two devoted to the entire space race. The story of space exploration is a long and rich one, with occasionally bizarre... ...ause of the difference in the American and Soviet space programs. Co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/06/27/6-Insane-Space-Stories-You-Didnt-Learn-In-History-Class/With the massive mission NASA was charged with in... ...assive mission NASA was charged with in exploring space , not to mention other countries, there’s al... ...Torus, for example, a 1975 plan for a sustainable space colony.The Stanford Torus wouldn’t just bec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/06/06/10-Amazing-Retro-Failures-of-Space-Exploration/(Photo: Collect Space )This is not the actual sandwich. This corned beef... ...memorial to a particular incident on the Gemini 3 spaceflight . 50 years ago this past Monday, pilot John Young... ...John Young snuck a corned beef sandwich onto the spacecraft , which was then lau...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/03/26/The-Remarkable-Story-of-the-First-Corned-Beef-Sandwich-in-Space/Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has liquid seas... ...want to learn more about those seas in ways that space probes flying by can't. They have a radical propo... ..., much like missions that are currently exploring space , like Cassini and Mars rover Curiosity.Communicat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/13/NASA-Wants-to-Send-a-Submarine-to-Titan/[http://youtu.be/v2nJvAWPDtk] (YouTube link)Matthe... ...monologue from Interstellar about why we go into space is the unifying factor in this supercut of movie... ...ing factor in this supercut of movie scene set in space that you’ve probably seen many times -yet t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/11/14/The-Interstellar-Space-Exploration-Movie-Mashup/Today, the European Space Agency successfully landed a probe on a comet mov... ...on, and the Rock of Gibraltar, as well as next to space
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/11/12/Size-Comparisons-for-Landing-on-a-Comet/Does your dog get exited about a trip in the car?... ...hem the chance to explore the farthest reaches of space ?Celestis Pets, a company in Houston, Texas, wants...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/08/01/Company-Offers-Space-Funerals-for-Pets/(Image: NASA)Assuming that faster-than-light trave... ...o be genetically healthy in the long run, a human space colony would need at least 10,000 members.Ideally...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/How-Many-People-Would-It-Take-to-Colonize-Another-Star-System/Randall Munroe, the roboticist and artist behind the webcomic xkcd, operates the blog “What If?” In it, he responds to strange scientific queries by readers. Most recently, reader Bryan J. McCarter asked Mr....
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/20/What-Is-the-Farthest-One-Human-Being-Has-Ever-Been-from-Another/(Photo: Charles Atkeison)You might not make it int... ...hoto: Charles Atkeison)You might not make it into space during your lifetime, but you might get to Space Camp. Since 1982, this NASA program at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama has pr... ...Ro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/05/Space-Camp-for-Grown-Ups/