NASA is looking for volunteers to sign up as a ‘Martian Astronaut’. You won’t actually be going to Mars, but instead spend a year inside a simulated Mars colony. Volunteers will be part of a four-person crew living inside a 1,700-square foot habitat inside Houston’s Johnson Space Center, where you’d carry out various tasks meant […]
A large piece from the 1986 Challenger explosion has been found at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. NASA announced Thursday that a roughly 15×15-foot piece of the space shuttle’s belly was found by divers earlier this year. Its discovery will be covered in a History Channel documentary later this month. NASA is reaching out […]
NASA has a new job for space fans. The agency is taking applications for four people to live for a year in Mars Dune Alpha, which is a 17-hundred-square-foot Martian habitat, created by a 3D-printer. The habitat is inside Johnson Space Center in Houston and the project will prepare for eventually sending astronauts to Mars. […]
