If I were ever so blessed to copulate with Scarlett Johansson, I might try some strange things, things I wasn’t even generally comfortable with, just for the vicarious accomplishment of all mankind.

Koichi Wakata, a Japanese astronaut, is working under a similar philosophy.

He’s promised to perform 16 tasks in ISS laboratories that have been drawn from a pool of 1,597 requests. Included in that list: Doing push-ups, folding clothes, arm wresting another astronaut, shooting liquid from a straw and even flying a magic carpet.

Bow your heads, friends. A god walks amongst men. [Physorg]

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Eli traileri uusimmasta Star Trekistä:

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It looks like the Europervs got a bad case of penis envy: They are now working on a suborbital plane—in the image—similar to the SpaceShipTwo and a hypersonic passenger plane called SpaceLiner.

The project—called Future High-Altitude High-Speed Transport 20XX (the XX standing for who-the-heck-knows-when-this-is-going-to-happen) has an initial investment .68 million to work on the concepts.

The suborbital plane will be based on the glide-and-landing Phoenix, an aircraft that was designed by DLR aerospace and aeronautics giant EADS, manufacturers of the Airbus fleet. But while this one will be very similar to SpaceShipTwo, the SpaceLiner is completely different (and weird). There will be a first stage, a large booster, with the actual vehicle on top carrying 50 passengers.

The SpaceLiner will launch vertically and take 90 minutes to fly from any city in Europe to Australia, and will be reusable 150 times, needing its engines replaces every 25 flights.

Sounds crazy? I don’t care. I want a ride. [Flighglobal]

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In direct contrast to the overloaded interface of the shuttle is SpaceShipOne’s cockpit. Sure it’s a simpler machine, but the UI is better. Until the screen goes out at 4:40 in this old video:

Stuff like this happens when you build space ships in your garage. [discovery]

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