Space Station
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Space Object Plays Chicken with the ISS – Astronauts Forced to Hunker Down in Capsule
Early this morning the ISS and a piece of debris from an old Russian weather satellite almost gave one another a bro-like chest bump. Astronauts had an hour and a half to secure as many of the ISS’s individual modules and get themselves...
Interactive Look Inside Space X’s Dragon Capsule!
If you’ve been following WeirdThings for any length of time now, you know that every time space exploration is mentioned we grab our big, pointy-fingered, foam hand and start fist-pumping toward the heavens. Most of us are never going to...
Space Boom
By the end of this decade we could well be on our way to the largest period of growth in human history. The global economy would dramatically increase and the overall wealth of the planet will skyrocket. The people at the lowest end of the...
Can You Spot the Tiny Chinese Space Station on the Face of the Sun?
Alright, it’s a little easier when someone puts a tiny circle around it. What you are seeing is China’s Tiangong-1 space station transiting the Sun. This is the handiwork of Astrophotographer Thierry Legault who had to time this perfectly...