August 2016
Long-term spaceflight and microbiological safety issues
... 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 in the interior, joints and cables of a work module. Again, samples were...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... C. Lee and N. Jan Davis were the first married couple in space in 1992. Some experts believe the co-ed cosmonauts on Mir may claim the title to ‘first sex in space’ as well. Some will go to see their home planet...
September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
... Station. We will be making art with paediatric and young adult cancer patients, and with astronauts and cosmonauts in Cologne, Moscow, Tokyo, and Montreal, as well as with our patients and NASA astronauts. ILC Dover has...
May 2017
Recipe for success on flights to Mars
Rpace food might conjure thoughts of the fruit-flavoured Tang drink, astronaut ice cream or space food sticks, but none of these products have the strong connection to space that one might imagine. Tang wasn’t developed for space, merely used during...
February 2018
Journey of inspiration
... been a part of human spaceflight. Other art forms occurred more rarely during the early missions - like cosmonaut Alexey Leonov’s coloured pencil sketches of orbital sunrise and charcoal portraits of his Apollo/Soyuz crewmates – although...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
... spaceflight The Astronaut Training division has the responsibility for providing training to all ISS astronauts and cosmonauts in relation to ESA contributions to the ISS programme. This includes the analysis of astronaut tasks and definition...
