Sapporo space-beer ready for taste test
Hey, remember that batch of beer Sapporo was brewing from grain grown in orbit? Well, apparently it’s ready for taste-testing. Unfortunately it won’t be on store shelves, so it’ll likely end up gathering dust after being sampled by a bunch of high-connected drunkards with ties to the Japanese hooch industry.
“There’s really no beer like it [...]
South Korean astronaut injured on re-entry
This is not an ecouraging start for Korea’s fledgling space exploration effort. Astronaut Yi So-yeon suffered a handful of injuries when the Soyuz space capsule she was aboard hit a rough patch on re-entry.
South Korea’s Science Ministry said Yi bruised her spinal column and had a minor injury to her neck muscles as a result [...]
The results of the Japanese orbital boomerang throw are in…
…and, boomerangs behave in space exactly the same as they do in the Earth’s atmosphere. I know, kind of a letdown, eh? I blogged about this last month (which you can no longer read since our archives went down the tube when I moved everything over to Wordpress), and I’ve been wondering ever since what [...]
