December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... useful information for crew constituency studies. Six men from a wide international grouping were isolated for 520 days in a simulated Mars mission in 2010–11. All appeared healthy and content at the end of the period with...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
..., Russia, ESA and China conducted ‘The Mars 500’ experiment from 2007 to 2011. This study simulated a 520-day round trip to Mars, where volunteers lived and worked in a mock mission environment, generating useful data...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
... Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21 (also known as Palomar 6). Astronomers tell us that the observable universe has between 100 and 200 billion...
October 2024
Off-Earth risks to the human skeleton
... in spacecraft on the skeleton, experts monitored changes in ground-based isolation experiments in a pressurised facility lasting from seven to 520 days. For good measure, the experimental subjects underwent head-down bed-rest testing (with a head...
24 February 2016
Final interview for Scott Kelly tomorrow before his return to Earth
... mission in space along with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. After landing, Kelly will have spent in total 520 days of cumulative time in space making him a record holder among U.S astronauts. Kelly will land in Kazakhstan...
28 July 2021
Japan successfully tests rocket engine propelled by shock waves
..., the country’s space agency said Tuesday. Known officially as a pulse detonation engine (PDE), it was launched aboard a S-520-31 sounding rocket – a powerful single-stage rocket capable of lofting a 100 kilogram payload far above 300 kilometres...
