The latest TMRO/Spacevidcast show looks at the challenges of getting people to Mar: When do we get to finally go to Mars? – TMRO
Category Archives: Living in Space
Video: Space to Ground report on ISS activities
Here’s the latest episode of NASA”s Space to Ground weekly report on happenings aboard the ISS:
Video: Salad days on the ISS
Looks like red romaine lettuce plants grew just fine in the weightlessness conditions on the ISS. Unfortunately, for this first time, the crew won’t eat them until they are analyzed on earth to insure they are safe to consume.
Some resources about the project:
The latest space art from Bryan Versteeg
Artist Bryan Versteeg (see earlier posts here and here) has developed an extraordinarily detailed vision of spaceships, in-space habitats, asteroid mines, space settlements, and other space systems and facilities that he renders in a hyper-realistic computer generated style. His Spacehabs.com website offers a great gallery of works to peruse and purchase.
Gizmodo has collected a nice subset: What a space settlement would actually look like in real life – gizmodo
Here are some clips of how a giant habitat named Kalpana One would look inside:
Video: The sun goes round and round in Vine post from the ISS
When the International Space Station’s orbit follows above the line between day and night on earth, the sun will never go completely below the horizon. ISS astronaut Reid Wiseman created a 6 second looping video he made from images over such a 92 minute orbit. The clip is on the Vine site, which hosts short looping videos :
Update: Reisman later posted this – Twitter / astro_reid:
Our orbit is almost parallel to the terminator so it is daylight with a low sun angle 24 hrs a day now on the #ISS. pic.twitter.com/Vd7bGm4Rnu
