by Matt Vivion | Oct 20, 2018 | Past Events
Geoff Nunn, adjunct curator of space history at The Museum of Flight, joined us for an IMAX screening of “First Man” on Oct. 20 at the Pacific Science Center. After the movie, we got to chat about how it represented Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 space mission....
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2018 | ScienceWire
For NBC Mach, Bryn Nelson answers a question about astronauts that we’ve all had but didn’t have the guts to ask: Can their biological waste be used to make their food? Bryn talks with Penn State scientists who are doing early testing on using poop and pee...
by Matt Vivion | Oct 28, 2015 | Past Events
NSWA members and guests joined Ariel Waldman on Oct. 28 to discuss citizen science and hacking the space program. The chat followed her talk at Ada’s Technical Books. Waldman worked at NASA, founded Spacehack.org, and now organizes events to advocate for...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
In the 1980s, writes Susan Keown @sejkeown, two Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center scientists did research in outer space. With the Soviets. Drs. Barry Stoddard and Roland Strong weren’t astronauts but they sent experimental materials to the Mir space station....
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 1, 2012 | ScienceWire
Whoopi Goldberg, Steve Wozniak, and the Mir Space Station don’t appear together often. But space, science, and celebrities are all on display on Roger Ressmeyer’s website. Roger is the PhotoMedia 2012 Photography Person of the Year, and his documentary film on...
