Complete guide to rockets, satellites and more
The space industry is in the middle of a widespread transformation, as the last decade has seen a number of young companies begin to seek to profit in an area where most of the money was made from military contracts or expensive communications satellites.
"It's absolutely a viable industry to invest in, just like software," Bessemer Venture Partners' Tess Hatch told CNBC. Hatch has led Bessemer's investment in several space companies, sitting on the board of Rocket Lab and satellite company Spire Global, among others.
Space travel affects heart cells, but only temporarily - BBC Science Focus Magazine
The thought of spaceflight may make the heart skip a beat, but actually travelling beyond Earth could alter the organ’s cells.
With extended stays aboard the International Space Station (ISS) commonplace, and the likelihood of humans spending longer periods in space increasing, there is a need to better understand the effects of micro-gravity on cardiac function.
Scientists examined cell-level cardiac function and gene expression in human heart cells cultured aboard the International Space Station for five-and-a-half weeks. They found that exposure to micro-gravity changed the expression of thousands of genes, but largely normal patterns reappeared within 10 days after returning to Earth.
Challenger shuttle astronaut Terry Hart inspires St.
A young Terry J. Hart straps his floating body into a seat among dozens of notebooks, computer screens and buttons. His mission, using a remote robot arm, is to lure a satellite that had been spinning out of control into a bay of the Challenger space shuttle.
When Hart captures the satellite, the Walter Cronkite-narrated film cuts to Houston’s mission control team standing up in applause. On Thursday, about 270 students in the gymnasium of St. Anne School in Bethlehem followed suit.
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Heart cells 'adapt to space travel and change back again' - Independent.ie
The thought of space flight may make the heart skip a beat, but travelling beyond Earth could actually alter the organ's cells.
With extended stays aboard the International Space Station common, and the likelihood of humans spending longer in space increasing, there is a need to understand the effects of micro-gravity on cardiac function.
New research suggests heart muscle cells derived from stem cells have a remarkable ability to adapt to their environment during and after space flight.
Genetically engineering humans with TARDIGRADE DNA could help humans survive space travel | Daily
Experts believe the creature's DNA could be used to genetically modify humans, allowing them to withstand the deadly effects of spaceflight, specifically radiation.
The microscopic vertebrate has a nuclear protein that protects it from radiation and scientists are currently working ways to combine it with human cells.
Now, Chris Mason, a geneticist and associate professor of physiology and biophysics at Weill Cornell University in New York, believes its DNA is what could get humans to Mars.
Orbiting hotel with $5M luxury suites needs investors to get off the ground | Fox Business
‘The Future of Humanity’ author and theoretical physicist Michio Kaku gives his thoughts on Elon Musk’s mission to colonize Mars and asks ‘Why not become a two-planet species?’
The billions it will cost to build the planet’s first luxury hotel in low Earth orbit could be well spent if the developers can prove that private space construction is possible and profitable.
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That’s the gamble that the Gateway Foundation is making with its Werner Von Braun Hotel, with an eye toward building even larger facilities like a spaceport and convincing other space-faring companies that it has the technology needed for megastructures such as orbiting factories and power plants.
Air Force Plane Lands After Years of Classified Space Travel | Time
(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — The Air Force’s mystery space plane is back on Earth, following a record-breaking two-year mission.
The X-37B landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Sunday. The Air Force is mum about what the plane did in orbit after launching aboard a SpaceX rocket in 2017. The 780-day mission sets a new endurance record for the reusable test vehicle.
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Officials say this latest mission successfully completed its objectives. Experiments from the Air Force Research Laboratory were aboard.
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