International Space Station

Two space station engineers hold a trash compactor on display.

News

Colorado company is building its own WALL-E as it reimagines trash disposal, recycling in outer space

Sierra Space is building a trash compactor for the space station that’s similar to the Disney character, while others are working on detecting space debris to avoid big damages. Listen to our host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with The Colorado Sun reporter Tamara Chuang and then read The Colorado Sun story at the link below.

Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks as photographed from space by NASA astronaut Megan McArthur

Science

Glimpsing National Parks From The International Space Station

Nate Hegyi

Astronaut Megan McArthur grew up visiting national parks like Yosemite, Grand Canyon and Zion. Now she’s photographing them from 250 miles above the surface of Earth.

While she was working last week, U.S. astronaut Anne McClain realized that she needed a medium-size suit for spacewalking.

NPR News

NASA Scraps First All-Female Spacewalk For Want Of A Medium-Size Spacesuit

Matthew S. Schwartz

Two female astronauts were set to become the first women to spacewalk together around the International Space Station this week. But they both wear medium spacesuits, and only one was space-ready.

Education

Space Seems Closer For Colorado High Schoolers Thanks To ISS Astronaut And Alum

Stephanie Daniel

The distance between space and earth is now a lot smaller for a group of northern Colorado kids.About 400 Poudre High students packed into the school…