You can now attend a full lineup of live astronaut talks and "meet and greet" opportunities — all without having to leave your home."The Virtual Astronaut," from uniphi space agency, founders of National Astronaut Day, is a new ticketed live event series offering unique takes on what it is like to leave Earth and live and work in space.

NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, uniphi space agency, a division of uniphi good, LLC, is proud to launch, The Virtual Astronaut™ Live Event Series, a first-of-its-kind ongoing livestream event series of memorable talks, events and uplifting keynotes with real Astronauts, all in a Virtual setting and accessible to all around the Globe. Each individual event discussion is selected by and personally crafted by Astronauts, and will cover a wide range of topics including significant Space Exploration milestones, mainstream culture celebrations and trends, STEM and STEAM Education topics and individual Astronaut memories and experiences from Space, all with an "up close and personal" Astronaut perspective.

NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, uniphi space agency, a division of uniphi good, LLC, is proud to launch, The Virtual Astronaut™ Live Event Series, a first-of-its-kind ongoing livestream event series of memorable talks, events and uplifting keynotes with real Astronauts, all in a Virtual setting and accessible to all around the Globe. Each individual event discussion is selected by and personally crafted by Astronauts, and will cover a wide range of topics including significant Space Exploration milestones, mainstream culture celebrations and trends, STEM and STEAM Education topics and individual Astronaut memories and experiences from Space, all with an "up close and personal" Astronaut perspective.

CHICAGO — August 2020 — Two student teams from the Chicago area won the August 2020 Go For Launch! in Spring Grove, Illinois. Now, the winning proposals compete for development and launch to the International Space Station (ISS).

(This article is about one of our Go For Launch! student experiments...)he site of the infamous Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 is still beaming with radiation. Yet even in these inhospitable conditions some life has managed to survive and thrive by munching their way through the radiation itself.So-called “black fungi”, or radiotrophic fungi, harnesses the power of melanin (the skin pigment that helps protect us from ultraviolet radiation) to convert gamma-radiation into chemical energy for growth. Previously, this has been touted as a solution to feed astronauts during long space flights, but a new study has reported on the mold’s additional potential as a self-replicating radiation shield that could protect future Mars settlers from the dangers of space. The peculiarities of Chernobyl just keep on growing.