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Win A Trip To Space
"New Scientist has teamed up with Audi to offer one skilled winner an out-of-this-world experience: a flight that will take you 100 kilometres above the Earth's surface." ZOMFG! It'd be rude
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveBuzz Aldrin interviewed
Includes stuff about his Mars colonisation/exploration proposals.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveHow To: Be An Astronaut
"Water is a precious commodity on the International Space Station and every drop is recycled via the Station’s water conduction unit. And when we say every drop, we mean *every* drop." Still
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveRevived after 50 years: vision of putting Britons in sp ...
"Government officials plan to re-examine the case for sending Britons into space, almost 50 years after the UK pulled out of human space flight." About bl**dy time.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveOuter Space Exposure
"When the human body is suddenly exposed to the vacuum of space, a number of injuries begin to occur immediately. Though they are relatively minor at first, they accumulate rapidly into a life-th
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveLunar Explorers Face Moon Dust Dilemma
"Ultra-tiny dust grains can gum up the works of vital hardware on the Moon. And there's also a possible risk to health from gulping in the lunar dust—a toxicological twist to 'bad Moon rising.'&q
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveHow to revitalise science? Send a Briton into space
"Not on some half-hearted tourist trip to watch the Earth for a few days from the International Space Station, but a research-based programme with a specific mandate to inspire budding scientists
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveHow Safe Is Travel To Mars?
"As NASA lays plans for travel to the moon and Mars, the agency is exploring propulsion systems, crew modules, and habitat structures [and more]."
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveThe Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
"The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth hosts the best and most complete online collection of astronaut photographs of the Earth from 1961 through the present." Hell, yes.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveCan high-tech cavemen live on the Moon?
You know, that's an idea that might just work...if you'd all stop just talking about it and make a plan to get people up there, damn it!
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveThe Eagle has broken first men on Moon used pen to fix ...
Turns out the Apollo 11 mission was a lot more risky and fault laden than the media may have let on at the time. Gee, d'you think?
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveSpacewalks to be sold for $15 million
That's on top of the $20million fee for getting up to the ISS in the first place, mind you. Damn I want to go and do that...donations accepted via PayPal.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info savePlasma bubble could protect astronauts on Mars trip
How to protect astronauts from radiation exposure in space? Here's a hint - the solution musn't be too heavy.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveAnybody Got Duct Tape?
The makers of duct tape now have advertising copy that will last them until we colonise Mars - "as used by spacewalking astronauts for emergency jetpack repairs!"
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveBritish astronaut breaks space walk record
OK, so it's only the 'longest amount of time in space by a Briton'...but what the hell, yay! Brits...In...Space! :D
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveFlashy goggles combat space sickness
Avoiding vomit in zero gravity is definitely a good plan
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveJapan's space sneakers
New trainers 'designed to combat muscle wastage in zero gravity'
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveNEEMO - astronauts underwater
NASA training program puts spacemen under the seas
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveKalpana Chawla - First Indian American Woman in Space
>30 days ago by oneadventure, 1 User, more info saveAstronaut Ronald A Parise
Ronald A. Parise, PhD, WA4SIR, passed away Friday May 9, 2008 after a very long and courageous battle with cancer. He was 57.....
>30 days ago by dearcrom, 1 User, more info saveAstronaut Biographies Career Astronauts
Official NASA Astronaut Biographies prepared by the Astronaut Office of NASA Johnson Space Center.
>30 days ago by pep27bak, 1 User, more info save