Tag: International Space Station

The work questions shape and form: In the absence of gravity, what is the shape of a piece of sea or a handful of wave?

Herzog gave Stibbe a special gift: a glass cube inscribed with the Prayer for the Welfare of the State of Israel in the handwriting of its author, the President’s grandfather, Israel’s first chief rabbi, Yitzhak Isaac HaLevi Herzog.

Former Israeli fighter pilot Eytan Stibbe is slated to become Israel's second astronaut sent into space.

If successful on Saturday, it will be the first time since the last flight of the Space Shuttle in 2011, that US astronauts will go into orbit from American soil.

The device, which is about the size of a US 25-cent coin and only 1.7 millimeters thick ... and among other things is expected to ultimately make space travel more affordable.

In zero gravity things work differently than on Earth: “The tissue is being printed from all sides simultaneously, like making a snowball, while most other bioprinters create it layer by layer."

At least 20 people have died in the Bahamas as a result of the devastation wreaked by Dorian, and the death toll is expected to rise as rescuers continue their work.

"Earth satellites and aircraft can watch as storms form, travel across the ocean and sometimes make landfall" while giving information.

Israeli scientists find that some supermassive black holes are triggered to grow, suddenly devouring a large amount of gas in their surroundings.

NASA Television is also planning to air a multi-hour show, Eclipse Across America: Through the Eyes of NASA.

The students will study the data beamed from the orbiting Cubesats at the Herzliya Science Center.

The head of NASA is discussing joint efforts with the Israel Space Agency on travel to Mars, and experiments aboard the International Space Station.