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All Articles Tagged As: space survival
 | Tardigrades or 'water-bears'- are able to do away with space suits and can survive exposure to open-space vacuum, cold and radiation. ...> Full Article |
Psychologists reveal groundbreaking research, technology that will help address psychosocial challenges in next 'Age of Exploration'
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 | Lunar dust could be more than a housekeeping issue for astronauts who visit the moon. Their good health may depend on the amount of exposure they have to the tiny particles. ...> Full Article |
 | Seeking an out-of-this-world travel destination? Outer space will rocket into reality as "the" getaway of this century, according to researchers at the University of Delaware and the University of Rome La Sapienza. In fact, the "final frontier" could begin showing up in travel guides by 2010, they predict. ...> Full Article |
 | physicists discover powerful radio waves that may lead to spacecraft damage ...> Full Article |
 | Our planet is changing before our eyes, and as a result, many species are living on the edge. Yet Earth has been on the edge of habitability from the beginning. New work by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that if Earth had been slightly smaller and less massive, it would not have plate tectonics - the forces that move continents and build mountains. And without plate tectonics, life might never have gained a foothold on our world. ...> Full Article |
 | NASA has outlined a plan to repair a faulty electrical connector on Space Shuttle Atlantis' external fuel tank. The repair could take several days or even weeks. The launch date for ESA's Columbus laboratory of 10 January 2008 is no longer feasible. ...> Full Article |
 | It has been 35 years since humans last walked on the moon, but there has been much recent discussion about returning, either for exploration or to stage a mission to Mars. However, there are concerns about potential radiation danger for astronauts during long missions on the lunar surface. ...> Full Article |
Measures to protect astronauts from health risks caused by space radiation will be important during extended missions to the moon or Mars, say researchers in a paper currently online in Experimental Neurology.
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If a trip to Mars seems like it would be a tough journey, imagine what it would be like on the outside of the spaceship.
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 | Using a tether system devised by MIT researchers, astronauts could one day stroll across the surface of small asteroids, collecting samples and otherwise exploring these rocks in space without floating away. ...> Full Article |
 | An experiment that's aimed at healthy space travel and involves Montana State University scientists and students is now orbiting the earth on a Russian space capsule. ...> Full Article |
A ground-based, experimental model used to simulate astronaut weightlessness in space has provided Rutgers scientists an opportunity to study the effects of stress on immune organs.
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 | NASA clean rooms, where scientists and engineers assemble spacecraft, have joined hot springs, ice caves, and deep mines as unlikely places where scientists have discovered ultra-hardy organisms collectively known as 'extremophiles'. Some species of bacteria uncovered in a recent NASA study have never been detected anywhere else. ...> Full Article |
 | When the space shuttle Endeavour touched down at the Kennedy Space Center August 21, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston microbiology and immunology department chairman David Niesel was waiting by the runway, looking forward to a reunion with some of its passengers. ...> Full Article |
 | Transgenic tomatoes that have been genetically modified so that they grow better in micro-gravity environments, are on there way to the International Space Station ...> Full Article |
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