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Astronaut Ice Cream Sandwiches: In Space, No One Can Hear You Ice Cream
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Like ice cream, but don’t have a freezer or cooler handy to keep it from melting? Despite the frigid temperatures outside their space ships, astronauts face the same dilemma. Hence, the existence of freeze-dried ice cream for astronauts.… |
April 15th, 2012
Train To Be an Astronaut with the ESA’s Actual Training Materials
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A while back, NASA opened up its astronaut program to normal people that didn’t have a military background. Naturally, a bunch of geeks that always wanted to be astronauts applied even though they’ll never get the call. Obviously, you’ll… get the call eventually, so I’m not talking to you. What |
April 12th, 2012
Bill Before Congress Would Allow NASA Astronauts to Keep Most Space Souvenirs
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NASA and its astronauts from the early years of spaceflight including Apollo program astronauts have been having words over who owns the items astronauts brought home after their missions. NASA has recently blocked several auctions when astronauts tried to sell off what they believed to be their personal belongings. One… |
March 13th, 2012
Astronaut Builds LEGO ISS While Aboard the ISS
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We have an unnatural fascination with LEGO around here. When those little blocks are used to build geeky and awesome things, we get really excited. ISS astronaut Satoshi Furukawa from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency recently built a LEGO replica of the International Space Station while aboard the International Space… |
February 28th, 2012
Spacebar T-Shirt: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things
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This simple, yet clever “Spacebar” t-shirt design by Montro has yet to be made, but truly deserves to be. It combines four of my favorite things, computers, astronauts, passing out drunk, and hipster t-shirts all in a single package. Vote for it over at Threadless, and someday it could be… |
October 17th, 2010
R2-D2 Gets a Parking Ticket From an Astronaut
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This great painting is by Scott Listfield. Scott has got quite a few paintings featuring these lonely astronauts in them. The whole concept reminds me of 2001: Space Odyssey. Except for the R2-D2 part – that reminds me of Star Wars…. |
October 11th, 2010
Nike 6.0 X Buzz Aldrin Rocket Hero: One Pair of Kicks for Mankind
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Apollo 11 member astronaut Buzz Aldrin teamed-up with sportswear giant Nike for the Rocket Hero, a modified version of the Nike 6.0 Mavrk show. The Rocket Hero has Aldrin’s footprints on the moon adorning the insoles of the shoes. The body and toe of the shoes also feature collages of… |
December 20th, 2009
Moonwalk Lamp: Because Astronauts have Bright Minds
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I can only think of a handful of other jobs that are as awesome as being an astronaut. Being a technabob blogger is one of them. So is being an ice cream taste tester. What else…no, that’s it. I mean, how can you compete with a job that involves huge… |
December 8th, 2009
Gaming in Space (Almost, Really)
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NASA wants to put you in space–sort of–and they’re willing to build an MMO to prove it. With Astronaut: Mars, Moon and Beyond, the folks behind the American space program hope to produce a game that will be to space what America’s Army …was to, uh… American’s actual Army. |
November 16th, 2009
Nasa Urine Recycler is Good to Go. Unfortunately.
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“Houston, we have a problem.” Don’t tell me it’s broken again! Dammit Timmy, I thought I told |
November 30th, 2008
