Interest in space exploration is increasing again. In the past decade, there has been renewed thinking about missions to the moon, perhaps even to Mars. As inevitable fellow travellers on the bodies of astronauts, spaceships, or equipment, terrestrial microorganisms will undoubtedly come into contact with extraterrestrial environments.
No matter how well astronauts and material are decontaminated, co-travelling microorganisms into space cannot be prevented. Given the enormous adaptability potential of bacteria, it is conceivable that they will sometimes survive space travel and be able to settle in an extraterrestrial environment.
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Listen closely: 'The Vast of Night' is a triumph of character-driven science fiction - The Pitt
The camera pulls away from a girl at a switchboard placing a call and begins to speed through the streets of Cayuga, New Mexico. It enters the local high school's gymnasium before leaving as quickly as it came and slowing to focus on a teenage boy sitting in a radio station. The phone rings.
Via their phone call and this extended, exploratory tracking shot, Andrew Patterson's "The Vast of Night" connects its two leads.
In the opening scene, the film presents itself not as a 21st-century flick, but as an episode of a "Twilight Zone" style sci-fi anthology show called "Paradox Theatre," playing on a steadily flickering Eisenhower-era black-and-white television.
This Zoom magic show delivers a box to your house. Then it blows your mind. - The Washington Post
Because I'm committed now to the belief that Guimarães is an extraterrestrial landed among us to share his superpower to boggle the human mind. And because in an era of rampant transparency, a bit of theatrical mystery restores one's faith in the essential art of exuberant deception.
I vow not to give you the teeniest hint about the prestidigitative content of "The Present," which originates from a room in Guimarães's Southern California apartment. (His fiancee, Catarina Marques, operates the camera.) Nor will I divulge the contents of the brown box that ticket holders receive in the mail before their scheduled performance — and are instructed not to open until showtime. (The already extended production, which began May 7, is sold out through Aug.
Space Explorers Should Beware of Viruses From Outer Space: Opinion
This summer, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will launch a rover designed to collect samples of the Martian surface and store them until they can eventually be brought back to Earth. When they arrive, according to a former NASA scientist, they’ll be “quarantined and treated as though they are the Ebola virus until proven safe.”
His statement caused a minor media sensation , and understandably so. In the midst of one pandemic, Americans aren’t ready for another imported from outer space. But ready or not, the U.S. and other spacefaring nations need to start updating planetary-protection measures for a new era of spaceflight.
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The Space Review: Space resources: the broader aspect
Well, what you’ve just read is a tongue-and-cheek edition of what one might have read in op-eds and other coverage of Executive Order 13914: panic mongering, moral pandering, self-flagellation, and mainly the lack of understanding of what space resources are, or even what constitutes a resource.
But space resources are something more than simply chunks of metals floating in outer space. The ability to obtain, process, and utilize a given material or energy source means profit, but not in the direct way that it might be seen. In Situ Resource Utilization boils down mostly to the following phrase: if you possess the proper means, everything can be a useful resource.
America Gets Back Into the Space Race - WSJ
The U.S. is sending astronauts into orbit for the first time in nearly a decade. On Wednesday the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Elon Musk's SpaceX plan to launch the first manned flight of the Crew Dragon capsule, carrying Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station.
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Many of us no doubt remember the big deal made of the so-called Harmonic Convergence of 1987. It was based on an ancient Mayan calendar and associated with an unusual alignment of the planets. It had overtones of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and involved the possible visit of extraterrestrials. It attracted believers to Mount Shasta, Giza, Stonehenge and Central Park, and, it was hoped, would usher in a new millennium of peace and harmony.
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