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The Official NASA Guide To Drinking Your Own Urine [Space Travel]io9 - Nov 17, 2008 If you're going on a long space trip, you'll soon realize that you can't carry all the fresh water you'll need with you. The cost of getting all that water into space would destroy your budget before you ever built a … Also tagged: space, water, science, iss, urine, nasa, drinking pee |
io9 - Jun 13, 2008
Earlier this week we showed you the wonderful “cosmic soap opera” from Disney’s “Mars and Beyond” television show from 1957. This much more serious clip shows what a future expedition to Mars might look like. The …
Also tagged: mars, outer space, retro futurism, werner von braun, ernst stuhlinger
io9 - May 29, 2008
In December 1957, only two months after the Soviets launched Sputnik, Look magazine presented a timetable predicting the future of American space travel. "If you have a life expectancy covering the remainder of the …
Also tagged: predictions, outer space, retro futurism
io9 - May 28, 2008
Currently there are six Earth satellites in orbit around Mars, and three Earth robots on the surface. The latest robot to land, the Phoenix Lander, touched down on Sunday afternoon. But as Oobject reminds us, there are …
io9 - May 10, 2008
What happened to Polar Lander, the last Mars rover that NASA tried to land in the Martian polar region, where it hopes that the Phoenix rover will touch down on May 25? The mysterious fate of the lander that simply …
Also tagged: space, phoenix, mars, nasa, mars rover, space colonization
io9 - May 6, 2008
In a little over two weeks, skydiving specialist Michel Fournier plans to break the world record for the highest skydive ever attempted. If all goes well, he will jump from a balloon at an altitude of around 131,000 …
Also tagged: spaceflight, space shuttle, challenger, skydiving, world record, michel fournier
io9 - Apr 25, 2008
Jules Verne first published From The Earth to the Moon, or De la Terre à la Lune, in 1865, pre-dating our first real visit to our lunar neighbor by over 100 years. It involves a post -American Civil War group called …
Also tagged: gun, moon, jules verne, warren ellis, disneyland paris, planetary, triviagasm
io9 - Mar 26, 2008
Scientists have unlocked the secret of suspended animation, a state of "undeath" where the body's metabolism shuts down but all major organs continue to function. Hydrogen sulfide, also known as sewer gas, may be the …
Also tagged: space, top, suspended animation, mad science, hydrogen sulfide
io9 - Mar 22, 2008
What would we have to do to our bodies if we wanted to live on Mars? io9 consulted scientists, our imaginations, and a designer, and came up with the most realistic-possible portrait of a Martian colonist who might …
Also tagged: space, science, astronomy, top, mars, astrobiology, chart
io9 - Mar 7, 2008
We may not have interplanetary travel for humans yet, but it's never too early to start dealing with problems related to interstellar trade and solar system stock market crashes. That's why textbook publisher Routledge …