Tagged: ISS

Best cover ever – Space Oddity from the ISS - misc.ience

Aimee Whitcroft • May 13, 2013 •

• Chris Hadfield,
• culture,
• David Bowie,
• ISS,
• music,
• space,
• Space Oddity

Legend-of-a-human-being* Commander Chris Hadfield, who (in my view) has been responsible for some of the coolest, most inspiring science communication ever**, has just won everything. Ever. As his goodbye to his time aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Chris recorded… Read more › … Read More

Wringing a wet cloth in zero-G - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Apr 20, 2013 •

• ISS,
• space,
• surface tension,
• water,
• zero-G

Last year the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) asked “young Canadians to design a simple science experiment that astronaut Hadfield could perform in space” using items already available aboard the Station. The winning entry, by grade 10 students Kendra Lemke and Meredith Faulkner from Lockview High School Fall River, Nova Scotia (with help from their teacher, we’re told) came … Read More

TOSP Episode 21: February 21st 2012 - misc.ience

Aimee Whitcroft • Feb 20, 2012 •

• aimee whitcroft,
• art,
• artificial life,
• artificial muscle,
• chameleons,
• Code for Life,
• design,
• DNA,
• education,
• electrostatics,
• Elf Eldridge,
• events,
• grant jacobs,
• hack,
• Human,
• investment,
• ISS,
• just so science,
• knitting needle,
• mass production,
• Medically-related,
• misc.ience,
• neanderthal,
• nerja,
• painting,
• podcast,
• prozac,
• Quantum physics,
• registry of standard biological parts,
• robobees,
• Roger Hanson,
• science communication,
• sequencing,
• soft motor,
• static energy,
• synthetic biology,
• The Cosmic Engine,
• The Official Sciblogs Podcast,
• TOSP,
• water,
• yoghurt

We’re back!  And with a minimum of difficulties this week :) This week, Elf and aimee talk of a new soft motor, ROBOBEES, a teeeeeensy chameleon (squee!), hacking yoghurt, some very ancient art, ROBOBEES, investing in yourself, knitting needles and water bubbles and space, quantum computing for beginners, sequencing genomes on a USB stick-sized device [...] … Read More

TOSP Episode 6: October 17th 2011 - misc.ience

Aimee Whitcroft • Oct 17, 2011 •

• aimee whitcroft,
• Allergy,
• angiogenesis,
• artifical muscle,
• ball camera,
• brownian motion,
• Elf Eldridge,
• Fossil Fuels,
• freshwater,
• Google Android,
• IAS,
• internet,
• ISS,
• Journey to the Exoplanets,
• just so science,
• lifecycle,
• Manawatu,
• misc.ience,
• nanochannels,
• Nanotechnology,
• nerd nite,
• NZIP conference,
• organic nanocable,
• perfect black absorber,
• Peter Gluckman,
• petri dish,
• podcast,
• public perception,
• quorum sensing,
• rolling speed harmonisation,
• Sciblogs,
• speed,
• That's What She Said,
• The Official Sciblogs Podcast,
• TOSP,
• Traffic,
• vaccination,
• weight,
• whale,
• word order,
• yeti,
• Youtube Space Lab

[Original post on the Sciblogs The Official Sciblogs Podcast site] Featuring yetis, flashing bacteria, space!, brownian motion twists, That’s What She Said, better traffic control (hint: drive slower), nanotech _helping_ cell growth, wired petri dishes, vaccination, whale fall, NZ’s freshwater, and various fabulous eventry! This week, aimee and Elf could happily have talked for hours, [...] … Read More

Stunning video of STS-131 launch - misc.ience

Aimee Whitcroft • May 04, 2011 •

• Discovery,
• International Space Station,
• ISS,
• Smithsonian,
• STS-131

There’s nothing better than a spot of spacepr0n (well more accurately, shuttlepr0n) on a Wednesday morning. And so, let me present an absolutely fantastic video showing the 2010launch of STS-131, the 33rd mission to the International Space Station (ISS).  It delivered science racks to be used in the labs onboard the … Read More

The moon and the ISS - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Jan 12, 2011 •

• astronomy,
• ISS,
• moon,
• Sciblogs

Here’s another great photo including the International Space Station. Look closely at the top right. Thanks to @physicus (see That dot top right is the ISS. Oh yes it is. on Twitpic). Read More

Soyuz rocket blast-off - Videos

Peter Griffin • Apr 04, 2010 •

• ISS,
• Soyuz,
• space exploration