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Undark Magazine
April 21, 2018
While Bridenstine has vowed to back NASA's $1.9 billion earth science budget (which includes funding for research on climate change) and has reportedly said he ... But this week, scientists announced that a 20-year experiment in overdosing plants with carbon dioxide suggests that may be overoptimistic.
NASASpaceflight.com
April 21, 2018
In the first three months of 2018, two major milestones were reached: number of nations participating in experiments aboard the Low Earth Orbit laboratory as well as a record amount of hours for scientific experimentation performed within a single week. As briefed to the NASA Advisory Council byÃâà...
SpaceNews
April 20, 2018
Using commercial landers for NASA-funded experiments, rather than developing the landers themselves, will be new for NASA's planetary science program. Green said that it should be comparable to flying instruments on missions by other nations. “We really want to jumpstart this and really want to helpÃâà...
Southernminn.com
April 20, 2018
Growing up in Northfield, Will Daniels wasn't one of the kids saying 'I want to be an astronaut.' It was never that specific. It still isn't. Thank you for Reading! Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading. Log In Purchase a Subscription. Current Print Subscribers.
Tech Times
April 20, 2018
On May 2, NASA will discuss an experiment on a new nuclear reactor power system designed for space travel at its Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Specifically, the agency will ... It will also allow the astronauts to run experiments and produce their own fuel while in space. Four Kilopower units wouldÃâà...
Florida Today
April 19, 2018
s Dream Chaser mini-shuttle will rendezvous with the station carrying 10,000 pounds of cargo and return with science experiments when it lands at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility roughly 80 days later. But beyond that first mission, selected by NASA under the Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract,Ãâà...
Pasadena Now
April 19, 2018
A NASA device from Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare for its launch to the space station, where it will perform plant and water studies. The ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (Ecostress), was built atÃâà...
Space Daily
April 19, 2018
NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) left NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on April 6 by ground transport and arrived at Kennedy Space Center on April 9. A few days after it reaches the space station, ECOSTRESS willÃâà...
Texas Monthly
April 19, 2018
“We'd have scrambled eggs, tortillas, breakfast sausage links, fresh lettuce [grown as part of a NASA experiment aboard the ISS], and some salsa. It felt like I was out having a pretty tasty breakfast taco.” Condiments and extra seasonings let astronauts improvise changes to a somewhat monotonous menu, especiallyÃâà...
MassLive.com
April 19, 2018
The 33-year-old University of Massachusetts postdoctoral researcher is part of NASA's 17th Human Exploration Research Analog, a program that allows the space agency to recreate the experience of being in outer space -- only with gravity. The experiment helps the agency learn more about space travelÃâà...
Phys.Org
April 18, 2018
NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) left NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on April 6 by ground transport and arrived at Kennedy Space Center on April 9. A few days after it reaches the space station, ECOSTRESS willÃâà...
The Financial Analyst
April 18, 2018
According to NASA, the experiment is called Micro-11, the experiment has two objectives. First, it aims to investigate how this sperm swimmers perform in zero gravity and to understand better whether human reproduction can occur in space. Second, the experiment aims to study the movement of the spermÃâà...
Jagran Josh
April 18, 2018
NASA had planned to launch two astronomy experiments to study how stars are born and how they die in the Milky Way galaxy in April 2018. • The first experiment, the Water Recovery X-ray rocket (WRX) was launched on April 4, 2018. • The second experiment was the Colorado High-resolution EchelleÃâà...
HuffPost
April 15, 2018
NASA Rocketed Human Sperm Into Space ... Experiments with sperm from sea urchins and bulls have suggested that “activating movement happens more quickly in microgravity, while the steps leading up ... The experiment is being managed by NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley.
Smithsonian
April 10, 2018
“Previous experiments with sea urchin and bull sperm suggest that activating movement happens more quickly in microgravity,” NASA writes in the ... In the latest experiment, the astronaut researchers will thaw the sperm from 12 humans and six bulls then use a chemical to activate half of the samples.
Outer Places
April 6, 2018
The experiment, which contains both human and bovine sperm samples, is intended to discover whether fertility is affected at all by time in space. Considering that a DNA experiment revealed that up to 7 percent of astronaut Scott Kelly's gene expression was permanently altered following an extendedÃâà...
The Weather Network
April 3, 2018
We're sure the conversation didn't really go like that (NASA science experiments are scrupulously planned), but we hope the crew aboard Skylab wasn't finicky about .... That was just the first known experiment. ... The environment and the experiments were hard on the fish – it seems most of them died.
CNET
April 2, 2018
Something called Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) will mount on the exterior of the space station to allow for experiments to be directly exposed to the harshness of space. Also headed to ... For more about some of the cool science leaving Earth today, watch the NASA video below.
Space.com
March 28, 2018
Undergraduate students watched their spaceflight projects soar into the sky over the weekend, thanks to a two-year NASA program that turned classroom lessons into hands-on experience. On Sunday (March 25) at 6:51 a.m. EDT (1051 GMT), a NASA sounding rocket from the space agency's WallopsÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
December 31, 1999
Previous experiments in space with bull or sea urchin sperm showed that while sperm was activated faster in microgravity, the subsequent steps happened slower or not at all. That does not bode well for potential space babies. For the Micro-11 experiment, astronauts on the ISS will thaw the sperm samplesÃâà...
