Tag: SPACE STATION

Japan apparently didn't get the memo that the whole Space Race is so last century, so it's going ahead with a project that will confirm just about every hard sci-fi stereotype about Japanese innovation: they're going to put massive, intelligent humanoid robots on the moon. The Japanese space agency JAXA is moving forward with the $2.2 billon project that aims to get the robots to the lunar ...

Imagine 13 people living in a cramped space with a broken toilet. While it might be tolerable for a few years in college, it's just plain miserable if you're in outer space. Or so we'd imagine, anyway. After all, it's pretty tough to find a plumber who will make a house call out there. According to BBC News, the International Space Station's main toilet (pictured at right) is broken. Endeavor's ...

While putting a call in to the International Space Station and chatting up an astronaut for a full ten minutes would likely be more than enough to satisfy most science classes, a group of students from Humber College in Toronto decided to go one big step further and do so with a radio system that they designed and built themselves. According to the school, that makes it the first time that's ever ...