FRANCE: In this column, staff writer Andrea Alfano rounds up the most important and fascinating space news of the past week in bite-sized summaries to keep you up to date on what’s happening way up above us.
New life has grown successfully aboard the International Space Station, as astronauts showed by taking the first bites of space lettuce. Meanwhile, our entire universe is meandering down the road to death, according to scientists. At least we got the chance to watch the beautiful Perseid meteor shower light up the sky this week before the entire universe fades to black.
This could be the best strategy yet for getting kids to eat their vegetables. It was the health of future astronauts, not children here on Earth, that motivated NASA to grow lettuce in space, however. The Veg-01 experiment aboard the International Space Station aims to find a safe and efficient way to grow vegetables on spacecraft and even other planets to enhance the physical and mental well-being of astronauts.
Tesla driverless system to use updated radar technology
WASHINGTON: Electric carmaker Tesla announced Sunday it was upgrading its Autopilot software to use more advanced radar technology. In a...
