Spaceflight
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How to feed astronauts on long space voyages is a major logistical problem, so researchers at Penn State are studying how to convert solid and liquid human waste into food. That may sound gross, but microbial reactors can break down the waste and convert it into an edible form.
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Today at a White House ceremony, President Donald J. Trump signed White House Space Policy Directive 1, which directs NASA to work with commercial and international partners to send American astronauts to our satellite as the first step to going to Mars and beyond.
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Humanity’s first “space nation”, Asgardia, is a step closer to getting off the ground after its first satellite was launched last week. The end goal is for millions of people to live on satellites, but don’t pack your bags just yet: Asgardia-1 is just a CubeSat carrying 500 GB of pictures and text.
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After years of development the latest Dream Chaser spaceplane has completed its first captive carry flight test. Hoisted up by a Chinook helicopter, the Dream Chaser will undertake one more captive carry flight test in the near future before embarking upon its first free flight later this year.
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Last year, some 200,000 people decided they don’t want to live on this planet anymore, and registered to be citizens of the first “space nation,” Asgardia. Now the self-appointed Head of Nation has outlined plans to launch the first of the nation's satellites.
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The prices fetched at auction are a useful guide to the perceived societal value of significant historical objects, and the sale of an Apollo Guidance Computer DSKY (DiSplay&KeYboard) for $93,750 this week could not be more illustrative of contrasting views.
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Lockheed Martin has weighed in on this generation’s great space race with a plan to get humans to Mars in just 11 years. Not to the surface, mind you; the Mars Base Camp plan aims to put six people tantalizingly close, in a space station orbiting around the Red Planet.
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A new study has found that space travel can change the volume of gray matter in different parts of the brain, which may be a result of fluids shifting due to a lack of gravity, and the brain working overtime to relearn the basics of movement in a strange new environment.
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It's been a busy year in space with new Mars missions launched, a NASA probe saying hello to Jupiter, and humanity's most ambitious comet exploration mission drawing to a close.
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The fate of ESA's unmanned Schiaparelli lander is a reminder that space travel really is rocket science, and over the years we've seen many missions that have, spectacularly or otherwise, not gone according to plan. Here's a look at the eight most embarrassing failures of the Space Age.
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In what sounds like a sci-fi backstory, AIRC has announced Asgardia, a "space nation" satellite that will operate as its own country, independent of any Earthly nation state. The team outlined the philosophical, legal and scientific goals, and asked Earthlings to apply to be its first citizens.
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Blue Origin recently carried out its first in-flight test of its crew capsule escape system. But in an unexpected twist, the reusable launch stage also survived and landed safely for the fifth time after a brief journey into space.
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