20 December 2021
Japanese space tourists land safely on Earth after 12 days on ISS
... videos, he showed his followers how to properly drink tea and sleep in zero gravity. When the three space travellers arrived on the ISS on December 8, they joined a seven-team crew who were engaged...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
... of thousands of small satellites and operation of transportation systems for safe and convenient space travel at affordable prices, to extraction of highly valuable space minerals worth billions, if not trillions of dollars, and the preparation for...
30 January 2017
Orion engineers test for vibrations and SLS completes a major review
... exploration vehicle that will carry the crew to space, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew in the crew module during space travel, and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities. Orion will launch on NASA...
08 December 2021
Japanese billionaire heads to the ISS for a 12 day stay
... just over six hours, capping a banner year that many have seen as a turning point for private space travel. On launch day, Maezawa and his crew left their hotel in Baikonur to a Soviet-era song played for...
05 October 2015
ESTEC opens its doors, 9,000 hi-res Apollo photos go online, and other news from the weekend
... in the Dutch city of Noordwijk. Guests were able to see demonstrations of developing technology, hear astronauts’ personal stories of space travel, and view a scale model of the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet at the home of the Rosetta probe. Even...
13 January 2021
The UK Space Agency and Rolls-Royce launch study into nuclear-powered space exploration
...energy released in splitting the atom to accelerate propellants, like hydrogen, at huge speeds, has the potential to revolutionise space travel. By some estimates, this kind of engine could be twice as efficient as the chemical engines that power our...
