Saturday Space Reads
Because we all need a little space on Saturday.
If you’re a space history buff – which we assume you are, if you’re reading this – mark your calendars for April 7th, when CNN will premiere a new series, Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight. While certainly not as much of a light-watch as Love Is Blind, the four-part documentary tells the important “inside” story of the 2003 disaster – one we must heed in order to avoid such a loss in our future.
The latest in continued discovery around the physiological impacts of long-term human space travel: space headaches. A study of 24 space station visitors from NASA, JAXA, and ESA revealed an alarming number of tension and migraine-like headaches during their stint amongst the stars. It makes sense – given increased fluid accumulation in the noggin, thanks to that sweet, sweet microgravity – but we’re not sure if NASA had an Excedrin line item in their Artemis budget.
If you’ve seen The Menu, then you know that some will go to the ends of this Earth for an exclusive dining experience, complete with five courses of the tiniest plates you’ve ever seen. Well, now those food aficionados can go beyond the ends of this Earth – almost – for the first Michelin Star meal in
spacethe stratosphere.Sure, there are more pressing matters, but we couldn’t help but get obsessed with this niche drama about the Space Force logo rejects. What are the redactions from the recently released Air Force records hiding?!
Read about Major Michael “Orbit” Nayak, the man (the myth, the legend) behind LunA-10, a DARPA program cooking up a recipe for a thriving lunar economy.
Scientists may call it a “triaxial ellipsoid,” but let’s call a spade a
spadewatermelon. What are we talking about? The Dimorphos asteroid, of course! This article outlines how NASA’s diversion of Dimorphos back in 2022 changed its shape in addition to its trajectory.Not to be confused with whatever nuclear mischief Russia is cooking up, nature’s got its own hydrogen bombs – in the form of novas, or star explosions. Learn about T Coronae Borealis, which “blows its stack” approximately once every 80 years and is likely to give us a show between now and September.
Bonus Rocket Eye Candy:
Nothing quite like a twilight SpaceX launch over southern California.
