How do astronauts get a superb night time’s sleep in house? Erin Flynn-Evans, director of the Fatigue Countermeasures Laboratory at NASA Ames Analysis Middle, joined this week’s Planetary Radio to discover how her group research sleep, fatigue, and circadian rhythms to maintain astronauts wholesome and mission-ready. Pictured: Astronaut Marsha Ivins taking a nap on the Area Shuttle Atlantis. Picture credit score: NASA.
Whenever you want on a taking pictures star, you don’t often want for it to land on you. However there have been a number of documented instances of meteorites falling proper onto folks or their property. In some instances, these house rocks have been presents from above. However in others, they wrought horrible destruction. Learn our evaluate of a few of the most noteworthy eyewitness accounts of meteorite encounters.
We’re organizing a particular Day of Motion to oppose the proposed NASA cuts. In response to the unprecedented assault on NASA’s science actions within the FY 2026 funds proposal, The Planetary Society and practically a dozen associate organizations are holding a joint Day of Motion on Oct. 5 and 6 in Washington, D.C. Join immediately, and we’ll practice you and arrange your conferences with elected officers to push again in opposition to the drastic cuts proposed to NASA science.
Dava Sobel has a beautiful expertise for writing in regards to the folks of science. That’s one of many the reason why The Planetary Society honored her with our 2025 Cosmos Award for the Excellent Public Presentation of Science. Sobel will be a part of the following assembly of the Society’s digital, members-only e-book membership on Aug. 5 to speak about her life’s work and reply members’ questions. Not but a Planetary Society member? Be part of immediately.
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