17 May 2016
Space Foundation is Now Accepting Nominations for Space Technology Hall of Fame
... products that improve life on Earth. The Space Technology Hall of Fame recognizes the life-changing technologies emerging ...use in space and then modified or adopted for use on Earth. Induction into the Space Technology Hall of Fame for 2017 will...
August 2016
Long-term spaceflight and microbiological safety issues
... Microorganisms’ activity and their role in the circle of life on Earth is well-known. Their inter-relationships with animals and ... was conducted once the transport vehicle came back to Earth, and the following was discovered: the central window and...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... before. A famous astrobiologist and one of my role models Lynn Rothschild said, “Alas, scientists have discovered that life on Earth has already done that - and has done so for billions of years.” Scientists have found extremophiles everywhere...
December 2017
Dressing up for space
...people regain the pleasure of eating food. Tourist in space The aim was to find a relationship between life in space and life on Earth connecting the two environments (di Agostina Issolio, Aleksandra Obradovic and Barbara Lopes de Oliveira) This drew...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... planetary exploration is planetary protection, i.e. the need to not contaminate any possible habitable environments with microbial life from Earth. This is of great concern as, unfortunately, scientists have found that there are microbes that can...
31 July 2017
Complex chemistry on Titan may form membranes
... with liquid methane suggests the intriguing possibility of chemical processes that are analogous to those important for life on Earth," said Maureen Palmer, a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author...
