July 2009 Archives

Astronaut Ed White goes for a stroll and becomes the first American to carry out a space walk in 1965.

White floated for 23 minutes outside his Gemini spacecraft and, without too much effort, managed to log in a 6,500-mile amble.

Fourteen astronauts pose for a photo in 1964 at Stead Air Force Base, Nevada, after grueling desert survival trainnig.

Front row: (left to right) William Anders, Walter Cunningham, Roger Chaffee, Richard Gordon, and Michael Collins. Second row: (left to right) Clifton Williams, Eugene Cernan, David Scott, Donn Eisele, Russell Schweickart, Edwin Aldrin, Alan Bean, Charles Bassett and Theodore Freeman.

This is the first image ever taken of the Earth and the moon in one single frame.

It was taken by Voyager 1 back in 1977 as it made its way to the outer solar system.

America is under attack... but it won't be the lead story on the news tonight.

Happy-go-lucky Hawaii is being targeted by invasive western yellowjacket wasps who are chomping on everything from caterpillars to pheasants.

If you've got a spare few minutes, you could do worse than spend some time looking around the huge collection of photos Nasa has posted on the web.

Too busy? Don't worry, let Weird Science do if for you!

Residents of a Japanese town got a bit of a shock when tadpoles fell from the sky.

Hundreds of the little critters fell to their deaths.

Explorers have stumbled across a really big hole in the ground.

Found in a a remote Vietnamese jungle, the Son Doong cave has officially been named as the biggest single cave passage ever.

When I get the hiccups I don't do 'em by halves.

I don't get them very often, but when I do they're so violent they can knock me off a chair.

To cap a week of celebrating, NASA is partying at the 10th birthday of its Chandra X-ray Observatory.

The orbiting telescope was launched by the Space Shuttle and has the ability to take hi-def X-ray images of some of the most spectacular sights in the heavens.

I've always got one eye on the weapons industry, just because I've seen Terminator and know what's coming.

A new unmanned vertical-takeoff combat aircraft has recently been tested and could soon be zipping around the battlefield.