Eat, sleep, discover house, repeat

How do astronauts get a great night time’s sleep in house? Erin Flynn-Evans, director of the Fatigue Countermeasures Laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center, joined this week’s Planetary Radio to discover how her group research sleep, fatigue, and circadian rhythms to maintain astronauts wholesome and mission-ready. Pictured: Astronaut Marsha Ivins taking a nap on the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Image credit score: NASA.

When you want on a taking pictures star, you don’t often want for it to land on you. But there have been a number of documented circumstances of meteorites falling proper onto individuals or their property. In some circumstances, these house rocks had been items from above. But in others, they wrought horrible destruction. Read our evaluation of a few of the most noteworthy eyewitness accounts of meteorite encounters.

We’re organizing a particular Day of Action to oppose the proposed NASA cuts. In response to the unprecedented assault on NASA’s science actions within the FY 2026 funds proposal, The Planetary Society and practically a dozen accomplice organizations are holding a joint Day of Action on Oct. 5 and 6 in Washington, D.C. Sign up today, and we’ll practice you and arrange your conferences with elected officers to push again towards the drastic cuts proposed to NASA science.

Dava Sobel has a beautiful expertise for writing concerning the individuals of science. That’s one of many the explanation why The Planetary Society honored her with our 2025 Cosmos Award for the Outstanding Public Presentation of Science. Sobel will be a part of the next meeting of the Society’s virtual, members-only book club on Aug. 5 to speak about her life’s work and reply members’ questions. Not but a Planetary Society member? Join at this time.

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