Alok Jha speaks to Piers Bizony about the future of personal space travel. Plus, behind the scenes at an animal research lab. A cure for hayfever. And bees doing the waggle dance
SPACE.com readers debate whether interstellar space travel could ever become reality.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying space travel possibilities have proposed that gravitational space corridors could be used by spacecraft, in much the same way as ships use ocean currents. Taking ...
LORRAINE, France, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- French scientists say the prolific virulence and growth of bacteria in space, coupled with reduced production of antibodies, might limit future space travel.
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viruses are more likely to reawaken in space, too, maybe due to the
stress of space travel. Whatever the reason, they could all spell
misery and even danger for astronauts traveling to the moon or
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Any Star Trek fan knows that space travel is not always easy, but Microsoft Corp wants to make traveling the "final frontier" as simple as turning on your computer.
ZHEZKAZGAN, Kazakhstan, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- An Austin, Texas, man in Kazakhstan is set to become the world's sixth space tourist and the first second-generation space traveler from the United States.
The Russian space program has found ways to make space pay and has shown that it is leading the way toward the commercialization of space travel.
HOUSTON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- NASA said space traveler Richard Garriott and two members of the Expedition 17th crew have returned safely from the International Space Station.
... space agencies like NASA, Roscosmos and others need to give private entrepreneurs broader access to the orbiting station and encourage private space travel, the latest U.S. space tourist said Monday.
... the first two men to follow their fathers into orbit has returned to Earth from the international space station.Search and recovery crews in Kazakhstan retrieved the American space tourist Richard ...
... coping with the psychological demands of
long-term space travel and how to conduct a spacewalk without
dropping ... announcement is expected weeks before the
European Space Agency reveals at least four new ...
... Ferguson and his crew took a small but crucial step for space travel in the past two weeks, enlarging the International Space Station so it can house six astronauts instead of three.
A compact fiber-optic probe developed for the space program has now proven valuable for patients in ... the device to look at the impact of long-term space travel on the visual system.
"During a three ...
... Japanese Kibo laboratory onboard the International Space Station (ISS) before returning to earth ... protein degradation and is an old hand at organising space travel for worms to do this. The 2009 mission ...
