March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
Now in the eighth year of its extraordinary extra-terrestrial expedition, the Dawn spacecraft is far from the planet where its journey began. While Earth has completed ...
October 2015
Baikonur, Kibo and beyond: Japan’s leading role in space
... Kononenko of Russia, Kjell Lingren of the USA and Kimiya Yui of Japan – all on their way to carry out Expeditions 44 and 45 on the ISS. Five hours and 42 minutes after launch, they’d arrived - which is much faster than...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
... astronaut I remember telling me about coming back to Earth with a different sense of home. Don was part of the Expedition 6 crew that was on the International Space Station in 2003 when we lost the Space Shuttle Columbia. He left...
February 2016
Space for Art
... opportunity to do such amazing stuff and work with such remarkable people. The first painting on ISS during Expedition 21 in October 2009. Nicole used a small watercolour kit as a basis for ‘The Wave’ based on a picture taken through...
August 2016
Long-term spaceflight and microbiological safety issues
... were found to contain mould fungi - penicillium (black mould fungus) and aspergilli. During the fifth main expedition to the Salyut 7 orbital station, a message was received from the cosmonauts about the discovery of visible mould...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
...potentially be used for fertilising nutrientdeprived soils on Earth and even on Mars one day I took part in multiple expeditions to these unique environments and I discovered that in Greenland, for instance, the extremophiles are capable of producing...
