Tag: NASA
5 Moon-landing innovations that changed life on Earth
Jean Creighton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Much of the technology common in daily life today originates from the drive to put a human being on the...
The tell-tale clue to how meteorites were made, at the birth...
William Herbst, Wesleyan University and James Greenwood, Wesleyan University
April 26, 1803 was an unusual day in the small town of L’Aigle in Normandy, France...
Asteroid dust brought back to Earth may explain where our water...
Maitrayee Bose, Arizona State University
Oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, and scientists argue that the planet’s interior also contains a lot...
Does a year in space make you older or younger?
Susan Bailey, Colorado State University
Daily life aboard the International Space Station moves fast. Really fast. Traveling at approximately 17,000 miles per hour, 300...
Female astronauts: How performance products like space suits and bras are...
Susan L. Sokolowski, University of Oregon
On my first day of spring break, I woke up to way more emails than necessary and a flurry...
How SpaceX lowered costs and reduced barriers to space
Wendy Whitman Cobb, Cameron University
On March 2, SpaceX plans to launch its first test of an unmanned Dragon vehicle which is designed to carry...
Why space debris cleanup might be a national security threat
Saadia Pekkanen, University of Washington
As an international relations scholar who studies space law and policy, I have come to realize what most people do...
Neil Armstrong and the America that could have been
Joe Essid, University of Richmond
According to a Gallup Poll from 1999, only 50 percent of those surveyed could even name Neil Armstrong as the...