Issue #2(2) 2014 Lounge

The vanity of machines

I was here – Rosetta’s self-portrait as it passes Mars, one of four planetary gravity assists needed to boost the spacecraft onto the trajectory to meet its target, comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

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Astronautics

Chasing comets together: the Vega project in the USSR and beyond

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On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement

Astronautics

Training space tourists to fly to the ISS at the Gagarin Centre

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Spacecraft protection and resilience - a convergent approach

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Pregnancy among the stars - the biology of birth beyond Earth