Hitching a ride usually only costs some gas and toll money.
But you’ll have to dig really deep into your pockets for a ride into orbit.
We've all stared up into space and wondered what it would be like to be an astronaut. Well now you can get a little taste of what it would be like to live on the International Space Station. Sunita Williams of NASA spent around six months on board the space station and before it was her time to come home she made a video tour of the entire space station and it's pretty freaking awesome...
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It so happens that several of the astronauts on the International Space Station are musicians, which means that the future could be full of similar transmissions from space.
After an eight month journey, NASA’s multi-billion dollar rover Curiosity made a successful landing on Mars early this morning. Mission controllers cheered after the six-wheeled, one-ton machine made a perilous seven-minute landing involving a parachute, rocket pack and sky crane.
Early Monday morning, NASA’s $2.5 billion Curiosity rover safely landed on Mars after eight months of interplanetary travel. The car-sized, one-ton rover now begins a two-year mission of exploration and discovery as it roams the surface of the red planet.
Imagine being an astronaut on a mission who’s stuck with the same old food for weeks or months (it’s not like you can call out for pizza).
Like most people who are faced with similar dining choices day after day, you’d likely eat less — and that’s a concern for scientists. So they’re recruiting volunteers to help them test out edible fare in preparation for a future mission.