Month: December 2025
Sixty Years Ago: Orbital Rendezvous
December 18, 2025As the clock approached 10 AM EST on the morning of October 25, 1965, the crew of Gemini VI, Commander Walter M. “Wally” Schirra (1923–2007) and Pilot Thomas P. Stafford (1930–2024), […]
The bacteria that won’t wake up: NASA discovers new bacteria “playing dead”
December 2, 2025New research conducted on a NASA-discovered bacterium shows the microbe is capable of entering an extreme dormant state, essentially “playing dead” to survive in some of the cleanest environments on […]