Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has the best view in the galaxy. Orbiting 230 miles above Earth, the International Space Station is home to Hadfield until May.
While he spends most of his day doing typical astronaut things, Hadfield does get one or two hours of free time, during which he snaps amazing photos to share with the Twitterverse.
It’s not named Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavor or Enterprise. But the Full Fuselage Trainer at the Museum of Flight in Seattle is the only full-size artifact of the space shuttle program that visitors can actually go inside and follow in the footsteps of every shuttle astronaut. There will even be limited access to tour the flight deck, complete with its control sticks, countless switches and pilot seats. The well-worn trainer was used by all of the crews who flew aboard the shuttle orbiters since the first flight back in 1981.
The Moon? Boring. Mars? Meh. The next giant leap for mankind won't come in the form of an interplanetary trip, but rather a quest to the pile of rocks which weren't quite good enough to become planets. Yup, asteroids. And NASA's already started training for the trip.
The idea behind visiting an asteroid is that astronauts can explore the surface for minerals, and to gather knowledge about the oversized rocks should they ever end up en route to planet earth and need to be destroyed.
Why build a Gingrichian lunar colony, which would cost billions, when you can send a man nearly into space for only $400?
That's what Canadians Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad did with an albeit plastic man from Lego and a modified weather balloon.
If you thought your current job was hard to get (Or are looking for one! Hang in there!), you don't know jack. Check out what it takes to be considered for employment in space. Spoiler: you probably aren't qualified.
