Story of The Year
Where were you a year ago? Were you better off? Worse off? In a different city, a different country? Not yet in a relationship, about to be a parent, learning …
Category: spacesuits
The Answer, Naturally, is 42
Welcome to the 42nd day of NASA’s longest simulated Mars mission! The day started with a bang. Or rather, a whimper. The whimper was the sound of our power systems …
This Alien Shore: 1 Month on sMars
There are a number of oddities inherent to space missions. Some are obvious and predictable: communication delays and dependence upon spacesuits, for example. Others are a little more…unexpected. One of …
Hot and Heavy: Spacesuits
You know those moments where you can almost hear god laughing? This is one of them. As a child in sunny Los Angeles, I snickered at my cousins’ back-east tales of …