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The Humanity United with MIT Art and Nanotechnology in Space (HUMANS) nanowafer will be launched on NASA's Axiom-2 mission in May. The recording of text and audio in over 64 languages from 80 countries is a combined effort between AeroAstro, the MIT Media Lab, and MIT.nano.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology As a not-so-distant future that includes space tourism and people living off-planet approaches, the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is designing and researching the activities humans will pursue in new, weightless environments. Since 2017, the Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) has orchestrated regular parabolic flights through the ZERO-G Research Program to test experiments that rely on microgravity. This May, the SEI supported researchers from the Media Lab; MIT’s departments of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro), Earth, Atmospheric a...
Caption: The Humanity United with MIT Art and Nanotechnology in Space (HUMANS) project aims to send a message into space that the cosmos are for everyone. Lebanese artist Nourie Flayhan illustrated this message of unity and peace that also incorporates the iconic etching on the cover of the Golden Record that flew on the Voyager spacecraft. Credits: Image: Nourie Flayhan Credits: Image courtesy of Nasr and Zhang. Previous image Next image When the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft launched i...