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“I hope it makes it easier for kids growing up gay that they know that another one of their heroes was like them,” Sally Ride’s sister, Bear Ride, said.
How does a microgravity garden grow when there’s no up or down? An advanced chamber, about the size of a mini-fridge, is giving us a clearer perspective of plant growth habits. Without gravity and the addition of a wide variety of light and humidity settings, the plants cultivated on the International Space Station provide a world of opportunity to study space-based agricultural cycles.
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Aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency snapped this photo and wrote, ‘The view at night recently has been simply magnificent: few clouds, intense #aurora. I can’t look away from the windows.'
The dancing lights of the aurora provide stunning views, but also capture the imagination of scientists who study incoming energy and particles from the sun. Aurora are one effect of such energetic particles, which can speed out from the sun both in a steady stream called the solar wind and due to giant eruptions known as coronal mass ejections or CMEs. Credit: NASA/ESA
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What was the hardest part in training to go to space?
One of the most challenging parts of space training was learning how to use the space suit. We weigh over 400 pounds in the space suit, and since it is pressurized, each movement of your hands is like working against an exercise ball. Since the suit needs to be quite bulky in order to protect us from the environment of space (vacuum, radiation, micrometeoroids, extreme temperature) while doing a spacewalk, it makes body movements a bit awkward. Dexterity is quite compromised with the bulky gloves as well. Although it is challenging, however, it is likely also the most rewarding, because, well, you are in a SPACE SUIT!!! Hopefully I’ll get to do a spacewalk and look down on the our planet from above on a mission to the International Space Station in a few years.
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