Posts Tagged ‘Space Exploration’

Nasa’s LCROSS Mission Finds Frozen Water on the Moon

Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:38 By Madhuri Katti

Nasa’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) had made an impact into Cabeus crater near south pole of Moon on 9th October and had kicked up debris as high as one mile. Scientists have analyzed the plume of the debris and concluded that it was frozen water. It seems quite a significant quantity of [...]

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Plasma Rockets May End Refueling Problems In Space

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 15:52 By Anna

Exploring new frontiers and what lies beyond in space may not be fictional anymore but the endless difficulties associated with space exploring are just as real. One of these is the difficulty of refueling once a spacecraft has left the Earth’s atmosphere. Returning to Earth to refuel or finding a refueling station were the only [...]

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Correcting a blunder: Hollywood restores NASA’s lost footage of the first moon landing!

Friday, July 17, 2009 9:26 By Neo

So, NASA was competent enough to put man on moon and later on send a space probe to Mars, but it was too dumb to preserve the footage transmitted by Apollo 11.

What seems downright more stupid is not that they misplaced the tapes or lost in an accident, but the wise men decided to tape [...]

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Wearable Toilets for Astronauts!

Thursday, January 8, 2009 17:20 By Jaiyant Cavale

All these years astronauts have been using the weird Russian made toilets, which usually went embarrassingly wrong while up in the space. In fact, the toilet needed prior training given to the astros. Now, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has unveiled a wearable toilet, which can be worn by the astronaut like a diaper.
The excrements [...]

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