April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
... been squeamish about exploring these sorts of questions. Unfortunately, the work done to date is not the least bit systematic - it’s been done on different creatures, in different setups, with different protocols, for different lengths of time. The...
November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
... everything. I got in on the ground floor. Through hard work, a knack for picking the right problems, and a bit of luck - I found a field that was the perfect fit for me. While others didn’t want to spend time...
13 March 2015
Ceres breakthrough: NASA's Dawn is first probe to visit a dwarf planet
... in that when other people appreciate what Dawn did, we will doing a lot more of this. It takes a little bit of extra time, but it's safer and cheaper, and that's important. Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and...
03 July 2015
Progress departs for ISS as two previous failures have world on edge
... Houston Chronicle, expressed the general ethos that has accompanied this latest Progress mission – it was all a bit too close for comfort, particularly considering the difficulties faced by the Russian space program in recent years...
25 August 2015
NASA’s Dawn gets up close and personal with Ceres: stunning conical mountain revealed in detail
... Dawn. Of particular interest is the dramatic, conical mountain on Ceres that Dawn snapped. This mountain is just a little bit shorter than Mt. Everest. What particularly makes the mountain stand out is just how small Ceres truly...
29 October 2015
NASA’s SLS rocket: CDR completed, but budget questions remain
... own CDR back in August). The first crewed flight of SLS and Orion is likely to happen in 2023 – which is a bit farther away than the original plan of conducting it in August of 2021. The delay is happening due to financial reasons...
