George H.W. Bush’s achievements in space are often overlooked but have significantly contributed to America’s current space program.
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New experiment on the International Space Station could help us tackle muscle loss in astronauts.
Could Canadian technology play a part in the newly announced U.S. Space Force? A team at McMaster University has developed an instrument that could keep Space Force troops safe from radiation.
Jeff Bezos plans to charge US$200,000-300,000 for a trip to outer space. And it’s going to cost him an astronomical amount of money.
Nearly 50 years since the first man walked on the moon, our morals are still stranded on Earth.
35 years ago Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. But rather than focus on her own extraordinary achievements, her passion became boosting the number of girls pursuing STEM. Another pioneering astronaut remembers her friend and colleague.
So long as small satellites are in low Earth orbit – and most likely they will be – the Earth’s “vacuum cleaner” will clean them up.
Africa is still witnessing an increase in social turbulence, unrest and protest. Only rapid, inclusive economic growth combined with good governance can make the continent less volatile.
The students of class 3F at Ferny Grove State School want to know how they get oxygen into the International Space Station.
The first poem in space was a plea for world peace.
The students of class 3E, Ferny Grove State School, want to know if astronauts get space sick when travelling to the International Space Station.
International plan for a lunar space station may lag behind efforts by private companies.
From cheap prosthetic arms for landmine victims in Sudan to the promise of surgery on astronauts in space — 3D printing is sparking a healthcare revolution.
If you want to live on Mars, you’re going to need to grow food. Seeds are naturally equipped to handle challenging Earth environments, but how well can they survive what they’ll encounter off-planet?
If a huge huntsman spider is sucked into a vacuum cleaner, can it crawl out later? Lucy, age eight, really, really needs to know.
Sperm that’s been to space is good enough to get mice pregnant – and give birth to healthy offspring.
Every moment of life on our planet has had the force of gravity in the background. But the prospect of long-distance space travel means it’s time to figure out what happens to our biology in its absence.
A twin experiment in space can help us prevent diseases on Earth.
We don’t know where Tiangong-1 will land but the risk of someone being hit is about 1 in 3,200.
Future factories in space could be used to launch large structural sections to build space stations.
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