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NASA names eight new astronaut trainees — half of them women

June 18, 2013 – 6:21 am
By Clara MoskowitzSpace.comNASA has picked eight Americans, a mix of scientists and military pilots, to begin training for future space missions that may one day launch them all the way to Mars. The new class includes four men and four women who will join the 49 active astronauts at the agency's astronaut corps at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.The new U.S. space travelers, which NASA unveile...
    


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NASA unveils its latest class of astronauts — half of them women

June 18, 2013 – 6:16 am
By Clara MoskowitzSpace.comNASA has picked eight Americans, a mix of scientists and military pilots, to begin training for future space missions that may one day launch them all the way to Mars. The new class includes four men and four women who will join the 49 active astronauts at the agency's astronaut corps at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.The new U.S. space travelers, which NASA unveile...
    


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NASA’s new astronauts-in-training

June 18, 2013 – 5:38 am
    


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Laser scans flesh out the saga of Cambodia’s 1,200-year-old lost city

June 18, 2013 – 5:21 am
Laser-scanning technology reveals that the Cambodian lost city of Mahendraparvata, dating back to a time before Angkor Wat, was much more extensive than previously thought. The latest word about the high-tech hunt for hidden ruins came over the weekend in an on-the-scene report from Australia's Fairfax Media.Archaeologists have known about the Buddhist-influenced city, situated about 25 miles (40 ...
    


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LEGO to roll out popular Mars rover Curiosity

June 18, 2013 – 4:59 am
By Robert Z. PearlmanSpace.comNASA's Mars rover Curiosity, which for almost a year has been driving across the Red Planet, will be the next model to roll off LEGO's CUUSOO production line, the toy company announced on Friday.The Denmark-based LEGO Group chose a fan-built model of the car-size rover to be the next release in its CUUSOO line of building brick toys."We learned that this product has n...
    


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NASA introduces candidates for astronaut training

June 18, 2013 – 4:48 am
    


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World’s largest solar boat docks in NYC 

June 18, 2013 – 4:48 am
The world's largest solar boat, a catamaran called Tûranor, reached New York City Monday afternoon, docking at the North Cove Marina in downtown Manhattan at about 5 p.m. New York is the boat's sixth stop in a trans-Atlantic expedition that began in March in the south of France.The boat's upper decks are covered in 5,554 square feet of solar paneling. The photovoltaic cells get Tûranor up to an av...
    


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Obese black hole galaxies could reveal quasar secrets

June 18, 2013 – 4:32 am
By Elizabeth HowellSpace.comGluttonous black holes in the center of some galaxies could be precursors to the brightest objects in the known universe.A recently proposed type of galaxy with an overwhelmingly large black hole in its center could give astronomers a better understanding of the formation of quasars — bright objects in galaxies with supermassive black holes. The centers of these obese b...
    


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New sound wave technique takes ocean ’snapshot’

June 18, 2013 – 3:37 am
By Charles Q. ChoiLiveScience The uppermost reaches of the ocean could be rapidly scanned in groundbreaking high detail using acoustic techniques, researchers say. The method resembles that employed to probe the deep Earth.For more than a century, geologists have used sound waves to investigate Earth's interior, analyzing how these waves reflect off different layers of rock. Recently, such seismic...
    


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45 years later, details of fatal Yuri Gagarin jet crash revealed

June 18, 2013 – 3:37 am
By Robert Z. PearlmanSpace.comThe circumstances surrounding the death of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, who was killed in a 1968 jet crash, have long been clouded in theories and rumors. Now, the first man to walk in space says he can reveal what really happened to his friend and fellow Russian cosmonaut.Alexei Leonov, who in 1965 became the first man to leave a spacecraft and float in the ...
    


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