For a pair of astronauts, it was the second spacewalk for the last week. Astronauts Randolph Breznik and mark Vande Hai 10 Oct came out in open space for maintenance of the manipulator of the ISS. While working with their paddle and photographed by ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli. For a …
Read More »The second novel of the series “Dead Space” went on sale
In March of this year the publishing house “Alphabet” has pleased domestic fans of the game Dead Space, firing on the Russian novel, Brian Evenson “the Martyr” (Martyr). This is a prequel to the story of “Dead space”, the action takes place hundreds of years before the known events. And …
Read More »NASA “launch” the names of the inhabitants of the Land into open space
Everyone will be able to perpetuate the memory of himself by sending your name into space. On the website of the American aerospace Agency (NASA) has discovered a new form of “order” to send the names of everyone on the red planet. Those who wish to complete a form to …
Read More »Will fly into space three “Ukrainian” missiles
Ukrainian rocket will go into space in November 2017. So, be sent into space launch vehicles VEGA (November 8), Antares (10 November) and Zenit (exact launch date still unknown). This launch will be the eleventh in the framework of the Vega and the third in 2017. Ukrainian enterprises of the …
Read More »Two observatories detected a wave of space-time
The existence of gravitational waves is one of the predictions of General relativity. Observatory Advanced LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) and Virgo announced the first joint detection of gravitational waves — perturbations of space-time. The study is published in Physical Review Letters, according to the max Planck Society (Germany). Signal …
Read More »In space experienced a supercomputer
The main goal of the experiment is the preparation for lunar and Martian missionsA month ago at the ISS in the cargo hold of the cargo ship Dragon has arrived SpaceBourne supercomputer, developed jointly by NASA and Hewlett-Packard. It was created in order to learn how such high-tech equipment will …
Read More »It became known when the first space colony
Great minds predict that humanity must settle themselves on other planets, if he wants to avoid the complete disappearance of some due to probable natural disasters. According to Stephen Hawking, this kind of disaster will happen to Earth in the next 100 years, that leaves us with not much time …
Read More »What are the Metropolitan areas of the planet from space. Photo
Pictures female astronaut. Samantha Cristoforetti, first Italian woman astronaut, who traveled to the International Space Station as a flight engineer, made amazing pictures of glowing in the night cities, which illustrate their outlines, as in maps. Look how beautiful the city looks from space. The look of the city from …
Read More »In space “spotted” an interesting finding. Video
Astronomers point to the uniqueness of the findings, as previously this was not known to science With the help of a telescope “Hubble” in the vastness of the Solar system, scientists were able to detect an unusual luminous object, a double asteroid with signs of the comet. So, astronomers were …
Read More »Northern lights over Canada showed from space
Phenomenon recorded September 15, when the ISS was located at the highest point of its orbit. NASA showed a photo of the Northern lights over Canada taken from the International space station. The photo published on the website of the space Agency on September 19. Phenomenon recorded September 15, when …
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