February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
...crops in deep space. According to NASA, five major hazards appear during long spaceflights: space radiation, ... supplement to freeze-dried food. Astronaut Scott Kelly nursed dying space zinnias back to health on the ISS. He photographed a bouquet...
May 2024
DNA across the universe - the new Noah’s Ark?
... orbit, but later on the Moon and Mars and eventually deep space, as far as it can go”. Each sample had its...sequence, encased in small protective containers to preserve it in the space environment. Genes were also donated by popular science writer Li ...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
... vision, and key goals? Shouldn’t you let private space commerce take over near Earth space activities and just concentrate on the really hard stuff like deep space probes? Why should the public pay for expensive...
May 2019
A matter of perspective
...Edinburgh Centre of Robotics are collaborating on an ambitious futuristic project to build an autonomous humanoid robot for future deep space exploration on Mars. The robot, shown in ‘starbot HR4DSE’, is equipped with a range of sensors that are used...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
... the conduct of modern warfare and perceptions of the balance of power in the international system. Earth orbit and deep space cannot be reduced to the simplistic ‘high ground’ of military strategy, as often described in public commentary on military...
26 November 2018
Success for InSight as it performs a flawless landing on Mars
... eyes and ears around the globe, including ESA’s deep-space ground tracking stations and its ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter ... of Mars and become the first mission to directly study the deep interior of a planet other than Earth. Mars’ surface has ...
