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Chris Hadfield has certainly kept busy while in space, and we're not talking about science experiments or keeping one of the largest and most expensive international projects ever running smoothly.
We're talking about the dozens of videos, thousands of photos, the Reddit sessions, the Twitter, and everyth... |
15 May 2013
17:51 GMT |
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The three astronauts part of Expedition 35 on the International Space Station are now safely back on Earth, as the Soyuz spacecraft that took them up in December also brought them back safely. The three astronauts spent a total of 146 days in space, 144 of them aboard the International Space Station. Exp... |
14 May 2013
03:57 GMT |
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Chris Hadfield's five months aboard the International Space Station are over – unfortunately for space photo lovers –, and he's now heading back down to Earth along with the two other members of Expedition 34/35 he came up with last year. The three astronauts, Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadf... |
13 May 2013
16:17 GMT |
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield is heading home, as his five-month stay aboard the International Space Station is essentially over. But he's not going back down without leaving us with a gift, and what better gift than a song. Not just any song, but a cover of David Bowie's Space Oddity, a great match considering... |
13 May 2013
08:49 GMT |
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US astronauts Christopher Cassidy and Tom Marshburn aboard the ISS are doing a spacewalk to fix a cooling system pump which has been causing problems for the past few days. Astronauts and ground control noticed an ammonia leak from the cooling system for the solar array panels.The two astronauts are out fixing the pr... |
11 May 2013
12:38 GMT |
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Living in space comes with a lot of perks, you get to float around and you have absolutely gorgeous views of the Earth 24 hours a day.
But there are some downsides too, like eating packaged food for six months. Thankfully though, you can't taste all that well.
You can't smell either, another bonus, sinc... |
11 May 2013
09:51 GMT |
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Two ISS astronauts, Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn, are preparing for an extravehicular activity (EVA) or a spacewalk, to try to assess what is causing the ammonia leak that has been spotted recently.
NASA has a pretty good idea of what's happening, a pump system that has caused problems before is the probabl... |
11 May 2013
07:21 GMT |
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It seems that the coolant leak problem at the International Space Station is serious enough to warrant no further delay in fixing, so two astronauts are now preparing for an unscheduled spacewalk to try to fix it.
The spacewalk will be held tomorrow, and US astronauts Tom Mashburn and Chris Cassidy will venture out ... |
10 May 2013
07:40 GMT |
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The International Space Station is suffering an ammonia leak from one of the solar arrays powering the station. While the problem is serious, the crew is in no immediate danger. ISS Commander Chris Hadfield, who usually uses his Twitter account to post spectacular photos from space, confirmed that there is a proble... |
10 May 2013
04:37 GMT |
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More and more entities are getting rid of Windows and are adopting Linux. It’s time now for NASA and ISS to take this important step.
According to the Linux Foundation, who is helping NASA with the transition from one operating system to another, the process is well underway.
“We migrated key functions ... |
7 May 2013
19:51 GMT |
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It seems to be "cloud day" on the ISS, as astronaut Chris Hadfield has tweeted photos several very interesting clouds and cloud patterns in a row.
There's an ice dragon off the coast of Newfoundland, a spade over the Pacific, and some very interesting shadows over mountains.
Quite obviously, when you circle t... |
3 May 2013
16:51 GMT |
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When he's not shooting photos of onions floating in space, astronaut Chris Hadfield has equally spectacular things to capture, like the Moon viewed through the thin Earth atmosphere before a low Earth orbit dawn. Sunrises are gorgeous enough down on the ground; from space they're even more spectacular. Had... |
2 May 2013
18:11 GMT |
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Living in space is great for so many reasons; you get to see Earth from above, you see several spectacular sunrises and sunsets each day, you float around, and so on.
There are a few downsides though. The food out there, no matter what Chris Hadfield would have you believe, isn't great.
Because it's expe... |
2 May 2013
16:31 GMT |
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is doing so much aboard the ISS that it's beginning to look like there's more than one of him up there. Between a constant stream of gorgeous photos, the tweeting, keeping the ISS running as he's the commander now, bringing in the Progress supply ship despite some ma... |
1 May 2013
13:11 GMT |
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Space is a dangerous place. It's not just the lack of oxygen or gravity; the biggest threat, at least in low Earth orbit, is micrometeorites and other debris that circle our planet at very high speeds. At several kilometers (miles) per second, or faster, even small objects pack a punch, so much so that they ca... |
30 April 2013
05:12 GMT |
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Chris Hadfield is snapping so many amazing photos from up in space that it's best just to follow him on Twitter or Google+ so you don't miss out. Every once in a while though, some photos stand out, like this gorgeous one of Beijing in the night. It looks like something a graphics designer might create t... |
29 April 2013
16:11 GMT |
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield has revealed many of the mysteries of every day aboard the International Space Station. Though he's only got a few more weeks to spend in space, his videos keep getting better and more interesting.
The latest has to do with water and how it's recycled aboard the space station. As y... |
27 April 2013
10:21 GMT |
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The issue preventing the Progress resupply ship from docking with the International Space Station has been fixed. Luckily or unluckily, depending on your perspective, it didn't require a spacewalk. The ship has now safely docked with the space station. Rather, the problem was eventually fixed with a software pa... |
26 April 2013
09:57 GMT |
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Even after decades of experience, things can and do still go wrong during space launches. The Russian Progress capsule, a resupply ship for the International Space Station, has quite a few flights under its belt.
But that didn't guarantee that its latest would go smoothly. Shortly after the spacecraft reached ... |
25 April 2013
10:30 GMT |
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It was worth putting astronaut Chris Hadfield in space just for all the wonderful photos he's been putting out. Of course, any photo shot from space is going to be magical, but a bit of skill and experience goes a long way. In the latest of his many videos, Hadfield provides a short tutorial on how to get the... |
23 April 2013
13:51 GMT |
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield is soon coming back down to Earth after his months long stay aboard the International Space Station. It's a shame too, as it will be hard to replace him.
But he's making the most out of the time he has left, connecting with people back on Earth and doing more of the videos he'... |
22 April 2013
14:11 GMT |
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ISS Commander Chris Hadfield isn't done explaining how things work in space, it looks like he's cramming as many videos like this as possible before he has to come back down to Earth and live like us mere mortals once again.
While he's put together some videos explaining cooking, nail clipping and eve... |
8 April 2013
09:52 GMT |
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Space is a great place to be, well, at least if you're tucked safely inside something like the International Space Station. Strangely but understandably perhaps, when you're in space, you'll spend quite a lot of time looking back at Earth.
At least that's what most astronauts do, judging by the t... |
3 April 2013
14:21 GMT |
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Dark matter is accepted as fact these days, but we haven't been able to observe it directly, since its very nature makes it unobservable. We have seen its effects on the universe though and we know that it's a huge chunk, more than a quarter, of what the universe is made up of. But we're now seeing th... |
3 April 2013
12:31 GMT |
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield has plenty of free time, apparently being on the ISS is much like being on a vacation.
So he's been putting out "instructional" videos on how to accomplish everyday tasks in space, things like cooking or clipping your nails.
Because even clipping your nails is exciting in space. Now, h... |
3 April 2013
05:24 GMT |
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One of the advantages of the International Space Station is that it's there, i.e. that it's in space, enabling NASA and the other space agencies to do plenty of stuff that would normally require dedicated hardware.
For example, the ISS is a great place to shoot photos of the Earth from, something that ast... |
29 March 2013
16:31 GMT |
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The International Space Station is now back at a full crew of six astronauts. The three fresh astronauts arrived at the station yesterday, only hours after launch.
It was the first ever speedy launch, previously, astronauts spent a couple of days in the Soyuz module, circling the Earth, before rising to ISS' a... |
29 March 2013
06:05 GMT |
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield already has a video about space cooking. But your definition of cooking probably doesn't include peanut butter and honey tortilla sandwiches. Granted, what he does in his latest video isn't exactly cooking either, but it's getting closer. In this one, Hadfield, who's now ... |
27 March 2013
15:41 GMT |
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St. Patrick's Day is celebrated all over the world, though probably for all the wrong reasons, green and alcohol mix well, it seems. Google has marked the day with a special doodle for the last few years and it didn't disappoint this time.
If you didn't manage to catch it over the weekend, Google has ... |
18 March 2013
09:13 GMT |
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield needs no introduction to space geeks and not only. He's been very active while aboard the ISS, shooting incredible photos, doing interviews, recording songs, tweeting and sometimes even attending his job. But he's taking on one more task, quite an important one – he&... |
14 March 2013
08:01 GMT |
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You've seen him snap spectacular photos of Earth, write songs from space, talk to celebrity spaceship captains, do cooking tutorials and Reddit AMAs all from the weightlessness of space. But if you thought Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield couldn't possibly do any more up there, you'd be wrong. In fact... |
6 March 2013
06:11 GMT |
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The ISS astronauts will spend the next few days unloading the supplies aboard the Dragon and then a few more loading it with stuff that must get back to the ground, the science experiments that have run their course.
Since the Dragon is currently the only unmanned spacecraft capable of returning to Earth, this part ... |
4 March 2013
16:21 GMT |
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After a wild launch, the Dragon spacecraft has successfully berthed with the International Space Station and astronauts are already unloading the cargo of supplies and experiments.
The spacecraft had some problems shortly after separating from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that carried it into orbit.
Three of its fo... |
4 March 2013
05:56 GMT |
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The Dragon capsule, carrying precious supplies and experiments to the International Space Station, has reached orbit after launch in its second resupply mission. However, there seems to have been some problems shortly after it separated from its rocket, there are no details about what happened. "Issue with Dragon ... |
1 March 2013
11:22 GMT |
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SpaceX has just launched its Dragon capsule, on top of the Falcon rocket it has also designed and built, on its second resupply mission to the ISS, the second ever commercial mission. The first happened late last year, though the Dragon capsule had docked with the International Space Station before, in a test fligh... |
1 March 2013
10:27 GMT |
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Mount Etna has been putting on a show lately, a scary show for those living nearby, but a spectacular one nonetheless. The recent eruption only resulted in stunning YouTube videos and not in any damage. It's still going too, ISS astronaut Chris Hadfield managed to snap a photo of the volcano's plume seen ... |
28 February 2013
16:51 GMT |
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A while ago, NASA announced that it would be holding a live Google+ Hangout with three astronauts aboard the ISS. It's now time for the hangout, Canadian Chris Hadfield along with Americans Kevin Ford and Tom Marshburn, will be answering questions live starting at 10:30 EST, 15:30 UTC.
There's still time t... |
22 February 2013
10:06 GMT |
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Photos and videos shot from the ISS are great in any shape or form, but like everything else online, they're better when they're a bit more fake, or rather, when they've been processed.
Chris Hadfield's shots, for example, are great, but he doesn't have the time to work on them too much whi... |
20 February 2013
15:21 GMT |
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We've found out how astronauts clip their nails in space, which is something everyone wanted to know, we've found out how astronauts wash their hands.
Yes, also in space, on Earth astronauts probably wash their hands like the rest of us mortals. Then again, who knows?
Now though, everyone's favorite... |
19 February 2013
18:21 GMT |
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NASA has lost contact with the ISS as communications failed during a software update. The ISS can still communicate with the ground, but only when it's over Russia via ground stations there.
There is no immediate danger to the vessel or the crew and instructions on how to fix the problem were relayed to the si... |
19 February 2013
12:53 GMT |
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The search for dark matter may be getting closer to an end as researchers operating the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) instrument, mounted to the side of the ISS, are teasing the scientific community with clues to a big announcement coming in a couple of weeks.
The team isn't ready to make the big announceme... |
18 February 2013
09:31 GMT |
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has been busy since arriving at the ISS in December. He's also made some time for the experiments he has to run, presumably.
Most of his time seems to be occupied with tweeting breathtaking photos from space, chatting with William Shatner, doing live concerts and generally bei... |
18 February 2013
05:56 GMT |
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The universe is a chaotic place, but it's governed by some pretty clean rules (we just don't know them yet). As such, all the chaos can sometimes creates something "too perfect" to be real. Case in point is the Taranaki volcano in New Zealand. Seen from above, it's almost perfectly circular, a shape yo... |
16 February 2013
11:41 GMT |
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Today's Valentine's Day and, no matter how you feel about it, it's hard to ignore it, might as well bear with it, it's only one day. Disclaimer out of the way, if you're looking to do something special for your better half today, all it takes is a tweet.
If your Valentine is good enough, yo... |
14 February 2013
11:03 GMT |
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have gotten a fresh pile of supplies thanks to the Russian Progress capsule which has just docked with the ISS.
Supply missions like this are quite mundane, the astronauts need water, oxygen, fuel and plenty of other supplies on a regular basis to survive in outer ... |
12 February 2013
09:21 GMT |
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We've been hearing about it for a few days now and it finally happened, Canadian actor William Shatner, who is still best known for his role as Captain Kirk in Star Trek the original series, got together for a chat with Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who's currently flying above us in the ISS.
The 10 m... |
8 February 2013
09:31 GMT |
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Chris Hadfield is so busy making videos on how astronauts clip their nails in space, practicing his guitar, getting ready for a chat with fellow Canadian William Shatner, the one and only Captain Kirk, that it's hard to imagine when he has the time to snap some of the most amazing photos we've ever seen. Oh... |
7 February 2013
09:05 GMT |
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It was worth to build the ISS just for all the wonderful photos and videos we've been getting from it and the astronauts aboard. The latest is another timelapse video covering two and a half orbits around the world.
The video was shot by the crew of the Expedition 34, the current expedition aboard the Internat... |
28 January 2013
17:51 GMT |
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Movies make life in space sound ultra-glamorous and, while it can be, when you're looking down on Earth from above or watching a sunrise from orbit, most of the things people actually in space do are fairly mundane. Yet, these mundane things can sometimes be more interesting than you'd imagine.
Take nail ... |
21 January 2013
17:31 GMT |
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