10 August 2015
ISS lettuce: first food grown in space eaten by Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui
There are many perks to being an astronaut, but consuming fresh vegetables isn’t usually one of them. This is why International Space Station crewmembers Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren, and Kimiya Yui look so excited to eat red romaine lettuce in this ...
22 March 2017
Massive quasars can be powered by direct collapse black holes say scientists
... seeds as stars produce feedback that blows away the surrounding gas cloud, thus cutting off the ‘food’ source. So it was a catch-22 situation; quasars need supermassive black holes, which need DCBHs, which need massive...
18 September 2017
'Mars crew' emerge from isolation after 8 months study on Hawaii
... take advantage of Earth grown tropical fruits - a no doubt much welcome change of diet from the freeze-dried food they had mostly been consuming while conducting the experiment. The aim of the study was to better...
04 April 2018
A storm hunter and space junk collector on its way to the ISS
... interesting cargo amongst the supplies and equipment it is due to deliver. Along with scientific payloads to investigate growing food in space, the effects of microgravity on bone marrow and how materials behave in space, the reusable Dragon...
