Digital electronic ‘glass cockpits’ have slow crept into spaceflight systems; replacing the old switches and knobs of the past. NASA’s Fine Motor Skills experiment onboard ISS is looking at astronaut dexterity and how the human body and brain respond to touch screens through prolonged use in the microgravity environment.
The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.
