Of course there’s a lot to do on board the International Space Station, but for an Italian astronaut, good coffee has to be a priority! So Samantha Cristoforetti became the first person to brew and drink an authentic espresso in space, and in doing so she paid tribute to a fictional female space pioneer who never […]
To say that something “can be seen from space” is to suggest that it’s big, although to be fair, it’s all a matter of magnification. Of course this video by Hyundai is a marketing stunt – but that’s not to say that it isn’t impressive. And for a 13 year old girl and her astronaut father, it’s […]
How big is a satellite? Well it doesn’t need to be any bigger than a drink can, according to the organisers of a competition for Irish schools, launched today by former NASA astronaut Greg Johnson. Colonel Johnson is President and Executive Director for the Centre for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), which manages the US National Laboratory […]
