In late 1964, two missions were launched by NASA with destination Mars! They were Mariner 3 and Mariner 4. Both of them were sent to flyby the Red Planet and take the first pictures and scientific observations, transmitting to Earth precious information about interplanetary space and Mars. At that point in history no one had ever seen how Mars looked like. There...

On Aug.5, 2012 NASA landed the Curiosity rover on Mars to begin a two-year science on Mars at Gale Crater, near the Martian equator. There are features there that were formed by water long ago, so it is a good place to explore for ancient signs of life. Curiosity is filled with complex instruments to study Mars’ surface and atmosphere. But Curiosity...

It's May and the night sky is jumping with lots of activity.  May is a good month to start using your handmade Astrolabe.  What's up there? For one thing, the Big Dipper/The Plough is going to be easy to spot.  Just look straight up in the night sky.  As we say good-bye to Jupiter when it slowly dips into the western sky this month, Venus ,...

Jon Lomberg is one of the world's leading artists inspired by science, whose work has been seen by over one billion people worldwide. His images range from fine art and museum displays to computer graphics for the media. He...

AWB AstroArt Project chair, Daniela De Paulis in a conversation with Richard Clar, AWB AstroArtist of the Month for April 2013.

Soy bread is one of the recipes developed to be used in a habitat where crops are grown, harvested and processed for crew consumption. NASA-sponsored research projects at various colleges have established that bell peppers, cabbage, carrots, beans, lettuce, green onions, herbs, peanuts, potatoes, radishes, rice, soybeans, spinach, strawberries, sweet potatoes,...

Background:

Space. It's a dangerous place--an extreme environment hostile to human beings. The launch in 1957 of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, heralded not only the beginning of the space age, but what would ultimately become another danger in space: orbital debris.

Chocolate Pudding Cake is one of the popular ISS deserts and is easy to make compared to other space food recipes. The recipes are complex because many ingredients start from scratch and are commercial food service products. Some of the more complex space food recipes were not included in the Astronaut’s Cookbook because the ingredients were not available and...

The first real opportunity for individuals or institutions in the world to access space at a very reasonable cost arose from NASA’s Get-Away-Special Program (GAS) that was announced in 1976.

Artists were not excluded per se from the GAS Program as...

Shrimp Cocktail has been in NASA food systems since the Apollo days and is still one of the most popular astronaut foods. Shrimp are very conducive to freeze drying. When processed properly, the dehydrated shrimp are very similar to fresh shrimp after water is added. Astronaut Story Musgrave (STS-6, STS-51F, STS-33, STS-44, STS-61, STS-80)  liked shrimp...

Dan Goods has been working as the Visual Strategist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 10 years. While there he has had the opportunity to work on a number of interesting projects. From drilling a hole into a grain of sand, to projecting onto aerogel, to simulating the surface of Jupiter. These are just some of the projects Dan will share the concepts...

For GAM 2013, Dr. Charles Bourland - author of the book “The Astronaut’s Cookbook” - will share recipes throughout the month. We invite you to try them and share your images via our Facebook, Twitter or on

Richard Clar, a Los Angeles/Paris new media interdisciplinary artist, founded Art Technologies in 1987 as a liaison between the worlds of art and technology. His philosophically-oriented artwork turned towards art-in-space...

I remember how in my trousers’ pockets small sedimentary deposits had accumulated. At a given moment I could recognize some breadcrumbs. At another moment I discovered minute smithereens of green glass, as if they were washed ashore on a coastal strip, or were remnants of an explosion. Often other specimen would surface, like shipwrecks, when I fished up a...

A showing of the film followed by a panel discussion
of astronauts and Overview Effect commentators
Sponsored by The Overview Institute, Astronomers Without Borders,
and Yuri’s Night

Since its premiere on...