The Johnson Space Centre released a batch of images this weekend, and one of them shows that an iPod’s got a place of honor on the International Space Station. The image above shows European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Reiter on board the International Space Station – with his iPod. The image released by NASA [...]

Pamela Gay, a physics professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, is the co-host of Astronomy Cast, a new podcast that takes a “weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos.” “I’ve always been interested in popularizing astronomy and how to get more people interested in what I do,” said Gay, of Edwardsville. She is joined by Fraser [...]

Persian businesswoman Anousheh Ansari, co-founder and Chairman of Prodea Systems and the first female space tourist, has been blogging and even vlogging about her experiences in space. Her posts range from the trivial to the profound. Some of the most interesting insights she’s provided have been descriptions of how space explorers do tasks we take [...]

Persian businesswoman Anousheh Ansari,set to be the first female commercial space tourist, is scheduled to lift off on the Russian Soyuz TMA-9 flight Monday, September 18th. She plans to blog and podcast from space at a site hosted by Los Angeles-based X PRIZE Foundation. “I‚Äôm hours away from my flight,” notes Ansari at her Space [...]

NASA is making space shuttle launch footage available as a video podcast for the first time. Complete video of the STS-115 shuttle launch (MP4) is included in a recent NASAcast. NASA plans to offer video podcasts for future launches. Other recent episode include footage of Atlantis performing a flip for the cameras before docking with [...]

Persian businesswoman Anousheh Ansari, co-founder and Chairman of Prodea Systems, is set to be the first female commercial space tourist, taking off on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft launching Monday, September 18th. She plans to blog and podcast from space at a site hosted by Los Angeles-based X PRIZE Foundation. “Over the next few days before [...]