space

"Mad Mike" Hughes lived a very busy life as a limo driver, a daredevil and a flat-earther. Part of his attempt to prove the Earth is flat involved launching himself in a home-made rocket to see for himself but sadly, it ended in tragedy. Mad Mike Hughes just launched himself in a self-made steam-powered rocket and crash landed ...

A Michigan couple made an unbelievable discovery in the front yard of their home Saturday morning.

The International Space Station will be visible to the naked eye in Grand Rapids through July 27th!

Sweet dreams are unlikely.

There's a possibility of seeing 60-70 meteors per hour; that's a lot of wishes to be made!

Is the Earth flat? A 'Flat Earther' runs into a NASA worker at Starbucks and asks him stupid questions about space. It didn't end the way he was hoping. For the record, we hate this guy!

Remember to mark this date down - August 21, 2017 will see a solar eclipse cross the United States. Michigan will see about a 90% eclipse.

Stephen Hawking, one of the most famous physicists in the world, has teamed up with a huge $100 million research and development program called Breakthrough Starshot. The goal is to get to Alpha-Centauri within 20 years, using tiny postage-stamp-sized nanocraft, powered by lasers and solar winds.

Last October, one of us got some "Astronaut Ice Cream", and we decided to try it, to experience the whole astronaut lifestyle, and food choices. Can't really say any of us liked it (except Janna), and it was super messy. But this is what the astronauts eat, right?

SpaceX has been making news, even though they really haven't been making any trips into space. They've had some successful, and not-so-successful launch attempts, landing attempts, etc. But they're still trying. And tonight, they try again, and live stream it!

A couple weeks ago, Digital Queen Wendy was in Chicago with some friends, and they stopped into the Museum of Science and Industry. While there, Wendy learned about Astronaut Ice Cream. Freeze-dried ice cream they eat in space. She'd never had any, so she bought some to bring back, that we could all try together!

SpaceX has been to space, and is the first commercial company to have a spacecraft dock with the International Space Station, which is pretty cool. But they have their sights set higher, and want to send people to Mars. The next step toward that from their unmanned Dragon ship, is the seven-person Crew Dragon, which is scheduled for launch in 2017.