Yet another interview with astronaut and space singing sensation Chris Hadfield about life in space: Chris Hadfield Space Oddity: Interview with author of An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth – Slate.com
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Hadfield also participated in the NPR program Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! on Saturday: Astronaut Chris Hadfield Plays Not My Job – NPR
Update: The Australian version of the 60 Minutes news magazine program has a segment about Hadfield : Space Oddity (Video)
The Art in Space section at HobbySpace describes various art related works and projects that were done in space or at least in weightlessness. These include The Cosmic Dancer Project described on artist Arthur Woods‘ site about artworks that were taken to the Mir space station in the 1990s.
Ths article describes some of the background to the Mir project and includes a video of the Cosmic Dancer sculpture on Mir: The Mir Space Station: An Unlikely Place for a Beautiful Art Exhibit – Universe Today
Here’s a report on the recent panel discussion at the Nat. Air & Space Museum about the Overview Effect (see earlier posting) : An Astronauts’ View of Earth Could Change Us All – The Daily Planet.
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NASA astronaut Mae Carol Jemison participated in the recent Race in Space conference hosted by Duke’s Department of African and African American Studies in Durham, North Carolina.
The Race in Space conference is a first of its kind event that seeks to explore the issues of race, culture and nationality in the colonization of space stations, planets and stars in space. This two day conference will highlight astronauts, researchers, artists and authors who have studied both the realities and imaginative events involving the dynamics of race and space settlements.
Here are reports on the conference and Jemison’s presentation:
Two Russian Cosmonauts made a spacewalk today at the International Space Station and lit a flame within a special device to represent the Olympic flame. This is in commemoration of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, that start on Feb. 7, 2014.
The Lunar/Mars mission simulation by the North Dakota UND Human Spaceflight Laboratory is into the 7th day of the 10 day project. (See earlier posts here and here.)
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