When the Artemis III astronauts land on the moon possibly as soon as 2025, they will need the right spacesuit.
After more than 50 years of quiet, the moon is about to become a destination for space travelers again.
As alluded to in Tom Wolfe's 1979 book about the space race, each crew member must embody "the right stuff" - demonstrating the traits of a good teammate and effective communicator who expects the unexpected. Axiom Space chief engineer Jim Stein demonstrates a prototype spacesuit, Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in Houston.The reimagined suit allows for more range of motion and includes extra-insulated boots and other innovations that should make it easier to explore the lunar surface. And it's about time - the spacesuits US astronauts wear haven't been upgraded since the Space Shuttle Program was active.
The sauropod's 49.5-foot-long neck, the longest of any known dinosaur, allowed it to stand in place and chow down for hours. Scientists were able to tell this orchid apart from others in its family because the flowers bloomed earlier and the plant has smooth, rather than hairy, stems.When a NASA mission scientist recently revisited images of Venus from 1991 captured by the Magellan spacecraft, he noticed something unusual. Two photos of the same feature taken months apart seemed drastically different.
The glacier is no longer present. But researchers spotted a crusty layer of salt that preserved surprising details of the ice chunk - and it's right in an area where humans may eventually land on Mars.Those dramatic lyrics are from the theme song of the 1958 film "The Blob," but they also serve as a warning about a giant mass making its way across the ocean. A tangled ball of sargassum seaweed spanning more than 5,000 miles has formed in the Atlantic Ocean.
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