Last month a meteor exploded over Russia, hurling 15 meters of shattered space rock toward the city of Chelyabinsk. The idea that a more significant and damaging Meteor could fall to earth got everybody talking, especially if that body is Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is the astrophysicist director of the Hayden Planetarium: In a recent…
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Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
You think you had a bad day? You’re looking at astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper, and yesterday she was scheduled to participate in a six-hour spacewalk
Remember That Futuristic Movie Where The Guy In The Space Station Speaks With His Daughter On Earth Using A Bell Picturephone?
Well it’s not a Space Station, it’s Columbia University. And it’s not the Earth’s Chairman of the National Council of Astronautics, it’s Bossy’s son—and his best friend in a different dorm room 136 miles away. And the daughter in question belongs to Bossy, and she is soaking up the i-Chat technology because it allows her…