Virgin Galactic Spacecraft

Virgin galactic's space tourist spacecraft will soon be a reality!

Faith keeping in Zero Gravity

And now, a booklet with rules for proper conduct during Ramadan for Moslem astranauts in space! Moslems are required to pray five times a day. Why five times? According to the Islamic texts, Prophet Mohammed flew (on a donkey like animal)from Mecca to Jerusalem and from there ascended to heaven. He was escorted by Moses through seven heavens into the presence of God. There, at Moses instigation, Muhammad pleaded with God to reduce the number of daily mandatory prayers from fifty to five!

Theoretically a Muslim would have to pray 80 times a day while staying in the space station as it circles the earth 16 times a day.But the guidelines have laid down that the astronaut need only pray five times a day, just as on Earth, and that the times should follow the location where the spacecraft blasted off from - in this case, Baikonur,in Russia.

More on these absurd rules here.

Drunk before space launch?

This is interesting. According to a panel studying Astronauts’ health,NASA had allowed drunk astronauts, atleast twice, to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned that they were so drunk that they posed a safety risk. The report has still been unsubstantiated and NASA plans to hold a news conference on Friday to discuss the findings. Well,well,skeletons are tumbling out of NASA’s cupboards. First,it was Lisa Novak attacking her ’romantic’rival and now this