Gizmo Watch

Astronauts that are stationed at space stations or keep constantly visiting the bases for repair work are always aware of the dangers involved in their job. Their lives are always at stake and therefore it becomes important to use spacesuits that..

Taking CD players into the International Space Station, Science Officer Don Pettit demonstrates gyroscopic spin stabilization in microgravity in the Saturday morning science. Floating a CD player in microgravity, Pettit shows us how the player spins..

Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata is about to start a fashion revolution – in space. The astronaut is testing new clothes developed by Yoshiko Taya and colleagues at the Japan Women's University in Tokyo. These clothes have been created to be...

Having spent an ungodly amount of money and resources in trying to train astronauts to survive in space, you definitely don’t want them getting drunk and spacewalk happy. But apparently over in Japan, they believe that astronauts hovering hundreds of.

When the spacecraft Endeavour blasts off in yet another voyage to the International Space Station, it will have one more passenger in addition to it's crew of seven astronauts, the robot Dextre, albeit in unassembled guise. This two armed robot is...

Yes, the legendary author Jules Verne still has a connection with space, not just courtesy his books like the classic-Around the world in 80 days, but because the European Space Agency has named one of the biggest cargo spaceship to be launched as...