Own space program

His perseverance has resulted in the creation of five pressure suits, the most recent one being the Zaphod I. He is hoping to test it out on a high altitude flight using an experimental balloon later this year. Growing crops in Martian-spec regolith is just one aspect of space-farming research. Plant scientists Anna-Lisa Paul and Rob Ferl, professors at the University of Florida, have been recreating alien conditions to study how plants adapt and live in space.

After a very late night setting up a gas composition experiment, my colleague Jordan Callaham and I discovered that the temperature was right, but the pressure was set too low: to nearly Martian pressure! We threw out the brown, dehydrated plants and restarted the experiment. The next morning, we were surprised to find the affected plants had green in their leaves and life in the cells.

We realized: If a greenhouse on Mars were to break during a dust storm or other incident, quick actions by an enterprising Maker Astronaut could salvage the crops and save the crew. Learn the ideal settings involved with getting the perfect nighttime photos, from aperture to shutter speed to ISO settings, and how to assemble those pictures into a beautiful time-lapse that shows how radiant the night sky really is.

Enjoy the peacefulness and brilliance of a starry night sky right in your own home with this LED setup. Your display can cover just a section of your ceiling, or you can add multiple panels to put on a stellar show. Play around with shapes and colors to construct a completely unique galaxy that you can enjoy day and night. These groups are working on cutting-edge projects to reduce the price of exploration, while opening up accessibility to space for everyone.

I love exploring harsh geological features in the hunt for strange forms of life. On Earth, Mars, or the moon, the best way would obviously be by motorbike. Nicole is a former Editorial Intern at Make: She is a long time maker and previously worked for Instructables. The exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across.

A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit. Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects. Celestia simulates many different types of celestial objects. From planets and moons to star clusters and galaxies, you can visit every object in the expandable database and view it from any point in space and time.

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