From an article by Rae Paoletta at Gizmodo: Spaceflight is not for the faint of heart—literally. The first results of NASA’s twin study, released just this week, revealed that space physically impacts astronauts on multiple levels, right down to shifts in gene expression. Now, a group of scientists at the University of Michigan have released [...]
While the science in The Martian is solid, there is one obstacle Mark Watney rarely had to cope with - his own body. During his two years alone on the Red Planet, Mark Watney never fell sick. He never had to splint his own bones or pass a kidney stone, never suffered a bout of insomnia [...]
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist... Work is underway to establish the world's first private, international commercial space station, a complex that would serve a global community of sovereign and private astronauts. The builders of the Axiom International Commercial Space Station aim to enlarge the landscape of low-Earth orbit, to create what they view [...]
From www.space.com: Researchers may now know why spaceflight is so hard on the eyes — and what to do about the problem. The likely culprit is the lack of a day-night cycle in the pressure inside astronauts' skulls, a new study reports. This finding, in turn, suggests a possible fix: the use of some sort of [...]
From an article by Kenneth Chang at the New York Times: VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A Falcon 9 rocket roared into the sky on Saturday carrying 10 communications satellites — a return by SpaceX and its billionaire leader, Elon Musk, to the business of launching satellites to orbit. But financial details disclosed this past [...]
From an article written by By ANDY PASZTOR, ALEXANDER MARTIN and ROLFE WINKLER at wsj.com: Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. is pumping $1 billion into OneWeb Ltd., which aims to use hundreds of satellites to provide internet access in rural areas and developing countries, in a fundraising round that values the startup at roughly $2.5 billion. OneWeb’s [...]
