What a treat last weekend in Allentown, PA, where the kids got to meet Capt. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, USN. She’s a former NASA astronaut who flew in two space shuttle missions (STS-115 and STS-126). She logged 27 days in space and 33 hours of spacewalking. While sharing her experiences with a nifty PowerPoint, we asked what […]
Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert’s campaign to name the International Space Station’s Node 3 after him has worked, netting 40,000 more votes than NASA’s suggested “Serenity:” NASA’s online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won. The name “Colbert” beat out NASA’s four suggested options in the […]