N ASA astronauts will launch into space from U.S. soil in May for the first time since the space shuttle program was retired in 2011.
The space agency announced Thursday that the date for the launch is set for May 27 in Florida. It will also mark the first time that a rocket used in a launch will be made by SpaceX, a private space company founded by Elon Musk.
NASA touted the planned flight as a "new era of human spaceflight" and included photos of the two astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, who will be charged with making it into orbit and docking with the International Space Station.
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Is Space Travel Our Destiny? | Evolution News
A few days ago I published the paper "The Solar System: Favored for Space Travel" in the journal BIO-Complexity . I thought it would be helpful for me to give a short summary of the paper to Evolution News readers.
I was motivated to do the study after two papers were published in 2018 on the difficulty of launching rockets from super-earths . Super-earths are the most common type of planet that are being discovered around exoplanets. They are somewhat loosely defined as being larger and more massive than Earth but smaller and less massive than Uranus or Neptune. From observations, super-earths seem to transition from rocky to gas-dominated composition above 1.5 times the size of Earth.
Space travel makes the human brain bigger, changes its functions, study - Tech Explorist
Space explorers on long-span spaceflight missions may develop changes in ocular structure and function, which can persist for years after the return to normal gravity.
Past study has suggested that long-duration spaceflight missions impact the vision of astronauts. Through a new study, scientists wanted to determine if any changes in the brain could support this theory.
To consider these impacts and establish a baseline, specialists finished a brain MRI on 11 astronauts, including ten men and one woman, before they traveled to space. Upon their arrival to Earth, astronauts were scanned within several days of landing, and then again at different time face as long as one year postflight.
Space travel expands brain's volume; makes it bigger: Scientists' startling discovery - Republic
The findings were key in answering some important questions about how well-suited humans were for space travel, and the long-term effects it can have on the human brain.
The lead author of the study, Larry A. Kramer, MD, from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said, “When you’re in microgravity, fluid such as your venous blood no longer pools toward your lower extremities but redistributes headward, that movement of fluid toward your head may be one of the mechanisms causing changes we are observing in the eye and intracranial compartment.
This may worth something:
French scientists using coronavirus lockdown to study space travel | The Independent
Researchers are studying 60 student volunteers who are confined to their dorm rooms in the southern city of Toulouse following the French government's decision on 14 March to lock down the country.
Space researcher Stephanie Lizy-Destrez, Associate Professor of Space Systems Engineering at ISAE-SUPAERO, an aeronautics and space institute, decided to make the most of a bad situation, and signed up the students.
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The idea is to see how they react over time to the kind of conditions they might experience on a long space mission.
Tornos News | French researchers using Covid-19 lockdown to study space travel
French space scientists are using the COVID-19 lockdown as a dry run for what it will be like to be cooped up inside a spacecraft on a mission to Mars, The Independent reports.
Researchers are studying 60 student volunteers who are confined to their dorm rooms in the southern city of Toulouse after the French government's decision on 14 March to lock down the country.
Space researcher Stephanie Lizy-Destrez, Associate Professor of Space Systems Engineering at ISAE-SUPAERO, an aeronautics and space institute, decided to make the most of a negative situation and signed up the students.
When family reunions are '6 feet of space, and an international border!' | WHAM
Lunark moon habitat prototype tiny home Greenland test - Business Insider
Two space architects in Denmark are working on a prototype that could be used for future habitation on the moon.
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