The astronauts eventually embarking on missions to Mars and deep space will need to be able to do a few things to emulate life on Earth. They’ll need to wash their clothes and grow some of their own food. This will improve the logistics of missions and enhance their quality of life. NASA is already …
Humans have been living in space for years, but it took endless research and planning to make that possible. Everything we take for granted on the surface of the planet, where we have gravity and resources to accommodate our every whim, has to be engineered to work in space. Scientists have yet to solve every …
Russia may be planning on leaving the International Space Station in the not-so-distant future, but until the country actually stops sending its cosmonauts skyward it needs to ensure its half of the ISS is working as intended. To that end, a pair of Russian cosmonauts exited the orbiting laboratory yesterday to embark on a lengthy …
Russians are performing a spacewalk today to prepare for the addition of a new science module to the ISS. The module will replace an aging one and will launch in early 2021. This will be the first of several spacewalks to prepare the space station for the arrival of the new module. The International Space …
NASA’s Jessica Meir will be returning to Earth this week from a long stay aboard the International Space Station. Being an ISS crew member is like living in a sort of isolation already, but Meir says she thinks she’ll feel even more isolated once she gets back to Earth, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Visit …
SpaceX is officially retiring the first version of its Dragon cargo capsule after a successful return to Earth over the weekend. The current version of the spacecraft has made many trips to the International Space Station, hauling vital supplies and experiments for the crew. The new version of Dragon, called Dragon 2, will make its …
SpaceX will launch four NASA astronauts and one astronaut from Japan’s JAXA space agency on its first operational crewed mission to the International Space Station. The launch is tentatively scheduled for later this year but will entirely depend on the success of SpaceX’s crewed test flight slated to take place in late May. It’s unclear …
Lettuce grown in space proves to be just as nutritious as lettuce grown on Earth, researchers find. Future crewed missions to deep space could grow vegetables en route or at their destination. A paper on the research was published in Frontiers in Plant Science. Visit BGR’s homepage for more stories. A lettuce-growing experiment on the …
When NASA sends astronauts to the International Space Station, they’re always in tip-top shape. That’s a pretty significant requirement since there’s really no way to treat most emergency medical conditions in space. But as healthy as each and every one of the space travelers is, there’s always something that’s bound to pop up when you …
Folks, 2020 is here. If you celebrated the new year at midnight of whatever time zone you happen to be located in, you probably rang in 2020 with family and/or friends. Perhaps you were even cuddled up on your couch with your dog, which sounds delightful, but however you chose to celebrate, you did so …
