It is the fourth marriage for the "Apollo 11" pilot. "We're excited like teenagers eloping," he wrote on Twitter. His wife is a few decades younger than him.Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin has married for the fourth time - on his 93rd birthday. Aldrin wrote on Twitter that he was happy to announce that he and his "longtime love" Anca Faur had said yes. Far is 63 years old."We got married at a small private party in Los Angeles and...
Israeli researchers have managed to grow cherry tomatoes, sweet potatoes and fruit in the Negev desert. The biologist Simon Barak now wants to find out whether this is also possible on the moon.Of Peter Münch, Sde BokerSimon Barak looks down on the desert from a high vantage point. A light wind is blowing at the grave of David Ben-Gurion, the founder of the state of Israel, who found his final resting place here in the Negev. And directly behind this...
As with so many astronauts, who are ultimately chosen based on social compatibility, the first impression of the British man John McFall is: What a nice guy. You would immediately want to drink a soda with him from the space-compatible sip bag if you floated past him on board a space station. But will 41-year-old McFall be levitating, bag drinking, and all the other nice (spectacular views) and not-so-nice (months without a shower, bed, or privacy) that goes with human...
For the first time since 2009, the European space agency Esa a new astronaut class selected. The French Sophie Adenot, the Spaniard Pablo Álvarez Fernández, the British Rosemary Coogan, the Belgian Raphaël Liégeois and the Swiss Marco Alain Sieber are to be trained as new astronauts. This was announced by ESA on Wednesday in Paris at the end of the ESA Council of Ministers meeting. Germans did not make it into the final selection. For the first time, however, there...
It finally worked: The NASA moon mission is at 7.48 a.m. Central European Time Artemis 1 launched from the Cape Canaveral Cosmodrome in the US state of Florida. The unmanned capsule is to last around three weeks Orion now be in orbit around the moon to prepare for a lunar mission. Previously, the mission had to use the new rocket Space launch system postponed several times due to technical problems, such as a broken engine and a hydrogen leak. Two...
It finally worked: The NASA moon mission is at 7.48 a.m. Central European Time Artemis 1 launched from the Cape Canaveral Cosmodrome in the US state of Florida. The unmanned capsule is to last around three weeks Orion now be in orbit around the moon to prepare for a lunar mission. Previously, the mission had to use the new rocket Space launch system postponed several times due to technical problems, such as a broken engine and a hydrogen leak. Two...
By Peter M. SchneiderMarylin Monroe's white dress, which swirls in the air in Billy Wilder's "The Seven Year Itch," cost its buyer the equivalent of 3.2 million euros at an auction in 2011. The engineers who are currently working on a new space suit for NASA should only smile mildly. Your clothes will cost many times that.What is probably the most expensive piece of clothing in the world is to be used in 2025 or later on the Artemis 3...
After a first failed attempt last Monday, nothing came of the first, still unmanned flight of the Space Launch Systems (SLS) of Nasa into a lunar orbit. And this time things seem to be more serious. The first attempt to refuel the rocket with liquid hydrogen only resulted in a small leak, which was quickly sealed. However, the leak on Saturday, the cause of which is still unclear, apparently requires major repairs.The rocket is supposed to go together with the...
More powerful propulsion, more space and in some cases much lower costs: three new large rockets are to take people to the moon and Mars. What makes them so special - and is the tourist journey to Mars getting closer with them? source site
When venturing into the unknown, it's a good idea to send someone ahead to scout. NASA thinks so too: last Tuesday, the US space agency launched the 35-kilogram spacecraft Capstone-satellite into space. Over the next four months, it should gradually swing to the moon and there swing into a long orbit around the earth's satellite. The orbit guides the satellite, about the size of a microwave oven, sometimes less than 2,000 kilometers close to the moon in seven days, sometimes...
