The team at NASA is a peculiar group of Beatles fans. Driven by nostalgia and the random notion of a Beatles historian, NASA will beam a classic Beatles song “Across the Universe” to Polaris, the North Star. Why? Well, this year is the fiftieth anniversary of NASA, the forty-fifth anniversary of the Deep Space Network, [...]

The dark of space, illuminated only by the pinpricks of light from millions of homes on the Earth’s surface. This is a place where you have to trust the people and technology around you, because without them you would never survive. This is the place where American astronauts Peggy Whitson and Daniel Tani ventured out [...]

Circulating around the internet for the week or so was a close up view of an image for NASA’s Spirit probe images. When zoomed, the image showed a figure, perched on a rock, with one arm straight out . Now at first glance, there is a resemblance to big foot, or a woman, or many [...]