17 September 2021
Chinese astronauts return to Earth after 90-day mission
... in a statement. "The first manned mission to the (Chinese) space station is a complete success," it said. The taikonauts - as Chinese astronauts are known - will undergo a 14-day quarantine before they can go home "because their immune systems may...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... exploration systems requiring increased autonomy such as medical care and vehicle health management to achieve Mars missions. Astronaut Nicole Stott, Expedition 20/21 flight engineer, working with the Mice Drawer System (MDS) in the Kibo laboratory...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
..., poignantly said: “Space is for everybody. It’s not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That’s our new frontier out there, and it’s everybody’s business to know about space.” Her statement foreshadowed...
11 June 2021
China unveils new Mars images, and prepares to launch first astronauts to space station
... first pictures of Mars taken by Zhurong, the country's first martian rover, but also gears up to send three astronauts to its orbiting space station in the coming days. At a ceremony in Beijing today, Zhang Rongqiao, chief designer of China...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... about the evolution of the Solar System and is also a potential platform for space exploration. ESA German astronaut Alexander Gerst onboard the ISS. Implementation of national objectives in accordance with the German space strategy is carried...
May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
... or imported in the EU. Part of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) solar array returned from low Earth orbit by astronauts after the HST’s first service mission, showing the atomic oxygen protection silicone coating to have darkened...
