Floating In Space

This is one of space s newest residents.

Floating in space. Scientists have used gravitational lensing to detect a so called rogue planet that doesn t orbit a star and floats freely in space. 7 1984 during the space shuttle challenger s sts 41b mission nasa astronaut bruce mccandless ii makes the first untethered free flight spacewalk. The guy who discovered pluto. On february 6 2018 spacex launched its falcon heavy rocket.

The planet is relatively small but researchers can t tell for. The idea of blasting your remains. Space burials aren t a particularly new phenomenon. Nasa of the 7 billion people on the planet only 530 have been in orbit and less than half of those have ever physically been outside a module walking and working and floating in space.

The first living organisms to make it into space and back were actually much smaller than a monkey or a dog in 1947 a container full of fruit flies successfully flew 106 miles above the earth and parachuted back without any apparent damage.