Tag: The International Space Station
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Canadian Detects And Tracks Over 4,000 Orbiting Objects
When Port Dover astronomer Michael Earl thought about how to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sputnik, he did not know what he was in for. He decided that over the year 2007, he would detect and track 1,957 individual satellites. He managed to detect 2,053 of them; nearly 100 over his initial goal. The project…
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New Organism Discovered On Space Station 6 Years Ago
Life in Space Joe Martino writes, “In what is a cool mainstream find, Russian cosmonauts have discovered LIFE clinging to the outside of the International Space Station. This is the first time living organisms have been found on the space station and scientists are not sure how “it” got there. In 2014, Cosmonauts found microorganisms…