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NASA To Market Motion-Sickness Nasal Spray

Dan Seitz — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 06:00:49 +0000

If you get motion sick, you’re probably looking for any form of relief. And a source of it is coming from an unlikely place: NASA. NASA actually spends a lot of money studying and fighting motion sickness: Being able to ward it off is vital to future space travel plans. But NASA isn’t also drowning [...]

They're NASA and They Know It [Video]

Jon Prell — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 02:00:10 +0000

Since the folks at NASA successfully landed the Curiosity Rover on the surface of Mars, there has been nobody on Earth cooler and more confident than these guys and gals. One of the biggest stars in this story is the guy with the weird haircut who has been all over the internet. Some of these scientists look so much younger and cooler than when we used to watch these things on TV.

New Video Experiment Says Something Ugly About Some Drivers [Video]

Jon Prell — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:45:13 +0000

One thing we see all the time while driving on Tri-State area roads are animals and reptiles on the roadway. What is it about turtles on Hwy 41, the Lloyd and Veterans Memorial Parkway? More often than not, when we see these critters they are roadkill. Do you think it's possible the drivers who hit these creatures did it on purpose?

Space Suttle Discovery Flies One More Time Into Retirement [Video]

Jon Prell — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:48:24 +0000

The space program is all but over and the space shuttle program has ended. Space Shuttle Discovery made it's final voyage yesterday around Washington D.C. on the back of a NASA 747 headed for retirement at the Smithsonian. Throngs pf people watched Discovery say goodbye as it made it's way from Cape Canaveral, Florida to Dulles International Airport.

Watch The Moon Evolve Over 4.5 Billion Years In Just Under Three Minutes [Video]

Jon Prell — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:12:46 +0000

We see the moon almost every single night without thinking much about it. We thought about the moon a lot in 1969 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the lunar surface. The moon never seems to change with the craters and formations looking permanent, but we now know the moon did not always look like it does now.

The 50th Anniversary Of John Glenn Orbiting Earth Is Monday – Where Should We Go Next? [Poll]

Jon Prell — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:00:56 +0000

This Monday, February 20th will mark the 50th anniversary of John Glenn’s historic ride into space, although Glenn was actually the third American in space. It was in 1961 that Alan Shepard and Mitchell, Indiana’s own Gus Grissom flew short suborbital missions to become the first Americans in space. That was the same year Russia launched two cosmonauts [...]

Unique View Of Earth From International Space Station [Video]

Jon Prell — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:15:56 +0000

Below is an incredible time-lapse video that uses NASA photos of the Earth taken from the International Space Station. It is very interesting to see our world in time-lapse video form. Enjoy this celestial view of our planet. Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.

It's Monday, September 19th And You Need To Know These Things

Leslie Morgan — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:19:59 +0000

It's 4 days until autumn begins

Today is also.....International Talk Like a Pirate Day and National Butterscotch Pudding Day

- NASA scientists say they've spotted a new planet in the solar system that actually orbits around two suns.

- If your spouse has Alzheimer's disease, it's OK to get divorc

Keith Urban Wakes Up The Space Shuttle

Leslie Morgan — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:11:56 +0000

Searching For Aliens – Too Expensive

Jon Prell — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:13:51 +0000

Since 2007, astronomers at the SETI Institute in Northern California have been scanning the great beyond for signs of alien life.

However, due to a decrease in the funding the institute receives from NASA and other government sources, the institute will have to shut down the powerful bank of 42 radio dishes that it uses to target unexplored planets.

Nasa Says 2012 Is Bogus

Jon Prell — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:16:45 +0000

A helmeted robot lands a flying saucer in a park in Washington, D.C. Dinosaurs freely roam a small isle off of Costa Rica. The Mayan calendar accurately predicts the fiery end of the world. Are the plots of sci-fi movies really that far-fetched? Of course they are. But NASA, whose space engineers are apparently also [...]