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On some fundamental, symbolic level, pop music and space travel are structurally similar: both are concerned with taking people to greater heights, faster and more smoothly than ever before. This slightly abstract analogy should become clear as you listen to the spacey tunes (including obvious entries from David Bowie and Elton John) on Underwire’s listicle [...]

Remember astronaut food? You know, those weird dried-out vacuum-packed foods they sell at science museums that are supposedly like the stuff astronauts in orbit have to eat? We always suspected these were actually designed as an early tactic for weeding out children with space travel aspirations who clearly weren’t up to the challenge. As in: [...]

We remember being really disappointed upon learning that astronauts who were in orbit for a long time had to work out or face a massive re-education process to strengthen their muscles upon returning to Earth’s gravitational surface. Running on a treadmill in a space shuttle seems like a such a dull way to stay fit, [...]