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Who says you cannot enjoy earthly delights in space? (Image credit: @NASA/Instagram) A group of astronauts posted at the International Space Station recently took part in a beloved earthly tradition -- pizza night. Over 400 kms above the Earth, they took on the challenge of assembling pizza toppings in microgravity. "Pass the pepperoni! The crew enjoys a family-style spread of pizza toppings," NASA wrote on Instagram while sharing photos of its astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Jessica Watkins with Russians Denis Matveev, Oleg Artemyev, Sergey Korsakov and Samantha Cristoforetti from the European Space Agency. View this post on Instagram A post shared by NASA (@nasa) Close Watkins impressed NASA with her topping-assembling skills. "Add chef to her resume," the space agency said. Crew members aboard the International Space Station have the option to choose from about 200 different items for their standard menu. The … [Read more...] about ‘Pass the pepperoni’: Glimpses from a pizza party in space

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Monday sees the launch window open through June 22 for RocketLab’s Electron rocket, which will send a small spacecraft on a crucial NASA mission to orbit the Moon. Called the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment ( CAPSTONE ), the tiny cubesat—about the size of a microwave oven—will launch no earlier than June 25, 2022 after a several delays. By entering into an all-new, never tried before elliptical orbital path around the Moon CAPSTONE will serve as a pathfinder for two of NASA’s most important human spaceflight missions—the Lunar Gateway space station and the Artemis program of crewed slights to the Moon’s surface. Where CAPSTONE will launch from RocketLab will launch CAPSTONE on its Electron rocket and Photon spacecraft from its LC-1 B launch site on the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. You can follow updates (and maybe more delays) on launch times on … [Read more...] about See NASA Launch Its Unique New ‘Lunar Colonization’ Mission To The Moon This Weekend

NASA's study will be independent of the Pentagon's Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group. (Representational image) NASA is officially joining the hunt for UFOs. The space agency on Thursday announced a new study that will recruit leading scientists to examine unidentified aerial phenomena -- a subject that has long fascinated the public and recently gained high-level attention from Congress. The project will begin early this fall and last around nine months, focusing on identifying available data, how to gather more data in future, and how NASA can analyze the findings to try to move the needle on scientific understanding. "Over the decades, NASA has answered the call to tackle some of the most perplexing mysteries we know of, and this is no different," Daniel Evans, the NASA scientist responsible for coordinating the study, told reporters on a call. While NASA probes and rovers scour the solar system for the fossils of ancient microbes, and … [Read more...] about NASA is starting a project to study UFOs

The NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) published its report on the agency’s management of a second mobile launch tower for the space launch system (SLS) mega-moon rocket—and the forecast isn’t looking good. Right now, the OIG anticipates that the project will cost more than twice what was originally budgeted and will be completed roughly 2.5 years behind schedule. advertisement advertisement Some Quick background In order to launch SLS, the giant moon rocket NASA has been developing since 2011, the agency needs the ground infrastructure to support it. The mobile launcher consists of a ground platform that can withstand the blast from the rocket’s engines as it takes off. The launch tower and its many arms provide the rocket with all manner of necessary launch components, including power, fuel, remote monitoring, and communication with mission control. The ML-2 contract The first mobile launch tower for SLS, which is currently on … [Read more...] about NASA watchdog says the outlook isn’t good for its mega-moon rocket launcher

AstroAccess, a nonprofit that promotes disability inclusion in space, has partnered with the Aurelia Institute to advance astronaut diversity by doing research on zero-gravity missions. advertisement advertisement “In one sense, space is the ultimate equalizer: everyone who leaves Earth is subject to the radical experience of leaving gravity behind,” the Aurelia Institute said in a blog post this month . But in another sense, real barriers to entry still exist for astronauts—be it cost, physical access, or lack of outreach. In an effort to change this, Aurelia led the Horizon 2022 zero-gravity flight, which took place on May 22, with 25 crew participants from various organizations, including “ambassadors” for AstroAccess. The 90-minute mission simulated space flight with 20 parabolas of lunar, Martian, and zero gravity that lasted about 20 seconds each. Mission basics Each crew member on the Horizon flight had a research goal, art project, or … [Read more...] about How AstroAccess plans to make space more accessible

When she was a little girl, Erika De Salvatore fantasized about being locked in a mall when everyone else had gone home. She’d seen the 1980s rom-com Mannequin , and, after that, she imagined having free reign over the commercial space, exploring storefronts full of products after the lights went dim. advertisement advertisement As we stroll around a huge, mostly empty retail space, she laughs about how she’s now living that fantasy. De Salvatore is the VP of visual merchandising at Target. And this is her domain: A 100,000-square-foot test store that takes up a full city block in downtown Minneapolis. You could wander here for hours and never see another soul. I was the first member of the press to set foot inside the store while reporting a story on Target’s new Made By Design collection . Opened in 2017, it’s a place where Target’s designers, visual merchandisers, executives, and retail partners can all convene to see what products will look … [Read more...] about Exclusive: Inside Target’s top secret test store

In the annals of the return-to-office debate, many companies are taking the middle ground. Apple wants employees back in the offices three days a week, once COVID-19 rates stabilize. Citigroup, Google, and American Express are on the same track. A “three days in, two days out” or “two days in, three days out” hybrid model is emerging as a popular workplace plan, as a compromise between managers who want closer tabs on their people, and employees who feel  happier and more productive working from home. But like most compromises, the 3-2 model leaves almost everyone feeling dissatisfied, prompting us to call it the “worst return-to-office strategy.” advertisement advertisement On the surface, the 3-2 model feels right: It provides a measure of autonomy that employees likely didn’t have pre-pandemic, and it increases the sense of status, certainty, and autonomy for leaders who feel the need to closely oversee their employees. In addition, … [Read more...] about We’re calling this ‘the worst return to office strategy.’ Why this hybrid approach won’t work

You know the place, even if you haven’t been there. advertisement advertisement From the outside, it has a spare, severe look. But inside, past the flower stall and barbershop, the vibe is serene and hushed. Long tables and worn leather chairs invite people to cluster; the scent of locally roasted coffee mixes with the sound of the nearby photo booth, whirring in the background. There are vintage records on the shelves and slinky indie pop on the speakers, and the late afternoon sunlight makes puddles on the century-old wood floor. The feeling is both of the moment and timeless. To a remarkable extent, this place, the Ace Hotel, is the brainchild of a single man, a lean, mop-haired native of the Pacific Northwest named Alexander Calderwood. A kind of hipster polymath, he was able to look around the corners of culture and see what was coming years, if not decades, before everyone else. In his 20-year career, Calderwood cofounded a barbershop, a … [Read more...] about Behind Ace Hotel Founder Alex Calderwood’s Creative Life And Untimely Death

With the storm raging in the Indian equity space through the past six to nine months, the benchmark indices have gone into a tailspin. The market is singed by an unabated flight of capital by foreign portfolio investors, economic challenges, and geopolitical uncertainties. The benchmarks are trailing more than 16 percent from their all-time highs scaled in October 2021. The 30-share BSE Sensex has lost close to 16 percent from its peak while the widely tracked Nifty 50 has tumbled nearly 18 percent from its all-time high. So far in 2022, the Nifty 500 index lost 12 percent, while the BSE Sensex and Nifty 50 have declined nearly 10 percent each. The kind of beating suffered by stocks across sectors can be gauged from the fact that more than 85 percent of them from the universe of BSE 500, which is a collection of biggest companies in the country, are trading well below their 200-day moving average (DMA). Now what is this 200 DMA and what does it indicate? Close … [Read more...] about As 85% stocks from BSE 500 trade below 200-day average, experts advise caution

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin There’s been scant word about director Wes Ball’s upcoming Planet of the Apes sequel, other than it will apparently continue the story began in 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes . The most recent chapter to that saga was director Matt Reeves’ 2017 masterpiece War for the Planet of the Apes , but with head ape Caesar dead, it appears likely his son Cornelius will have to carry on his father’s legacy. Which could mean the new sequel will be a reboot of Franklin Schaffner original 1968 film Planet of the Apes . Let me also note that I specifically refer to this sequel as possibly rebooting the 1968 film, rather than being another adaptation of the 1963 novel La Planète des singes written by Pierre Boulle, which inspired Schaffner’s movie. The novel is extremely different from the movies it inspired, first and foremost in the fact that the events take place on another planet, not Earth, and the twist ending is … [Read more...] about ‘Planet Of The Apes’ Sequel Could Reboot The Original 1968 Film