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With commercial spaceflight companies now taking older people to space, it’s timely to consider the potential physical impact space flight might have on them.
Without a magnetic field, the Moon’s surface is exposed to solar wind. These could have been depositing resources like water and potential rocket fuel on the Moon’s surface for billions of years.
In 1970, Gil Scott-Heron penned a spoken word song called ‘Whitey on the Moon’ that criticized the 1969 Moon landing. A hip-hop scholar explains why the song still reverberates today.
It wasn’t long after Jeff Bezos announced his plans to go to space that Sir Richard Branson joined in, setting a launch date to beat Bezos by nine days.
Rappers have been taking listeners on lyrical journeys to outer space for decades. A hip-hop scholar says their music helps inspire more students to pursue careers among the stars.
Several spaceflights scheduled over the next few years will take non-astronauts to space. But it’s not certain this privilege will ever extend to anyone beyond the extremely wealthy.
Bending space into warp bubbles to travel faster than light may never be a reality, but distorting the flow of time just might be possible.
Exercise is important for astronauts to prevent weak muscles.
It’s 60 years since Gagarin’s world-first return from space. The cosmonaut never did make it to Australia, but his huge feat was celebrated here by many, despite tensions with the USSR.
Perseverance follows in the tracks of Curiosity. The latter’s touchdown on Martian soil in 2012 marked the first successful use of several pioneering space technologies.
Aliens might want to contact us for the same reasons we are looking for them.
Calculations show that wormholes should create a spectacular display of gamma rays that we could try to observe.
Gray mouse lemurs are more closely related to humans than mice. They also have the ability to hibernate, and researchers are hoping to learn how to transfer that ability to humans.
After two decades as a home to astronauts, the International Space Station still has plenty to teach us about how humans can live away from Earth.
When it comes to managing the tussle for resources on the Moon, we might take lessons from New Zealand environmental law and TikTok ‘witches’.
Bacteria can become more deadly and antibiotic-resilient in space. And while more research is needed to figure out how severe the risks are, they could be catastrophic.
Space agencies are seeking new ways to be prepared for a surgical emergency on a mission to Mars.
The distance between the ISS and Earth is the same as about 3,850 football fields. To bring the station down, rockets will lower it a bit, and then gravity will send it crashing the rest of the way.
About 770 Australian entities are already developing space-related infrastructure, most of which are privately owned.
Top contributors
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Professor of Hypersonic Aerodynamics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Aerospace Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Sterrenkenner, History & Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Astrobiology, UNSW Sydney
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ARC DECRA Fellow, Centre for Hypersonics, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland
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Space Plasma Physicist, Imperial College London
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Adjunct Professor, School of Computer and Security Science, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer in Space Systems Engineering, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Strategy, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
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Professor, School of Engineering and Technology, CQUniversity Australia
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Associate Professor, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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Associate Professor, Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
