Even at the best of times, booking travel can be a stressful experience. With different prices for flights, hotels, and experiences scattered throughout the internet, it can be hard to know the difference between getting a good deal or getting scammed.
This headache is bad enough on Earth, but getting stranded at your interstellar layover on the way to your summer-home on the lunar surface is another thing entirely. To ease the minds of eager space tourists, Virgin Galatic is harkening back to an older, more dignified way of vacationing: the travel agent.
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NASA Launch Marks New Era in Space Travel | Voice of America - English
When NASA's Space Shuttle program ended in 2011, few thought it would take more than eight years for U.S. astronauts to launch back into orbit from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But as VOA's Kane Farabaugh reports, hopes ride high on a new "space race" of privately developed launch systems ushering in a new era of U.S. space exploration.
The role of the hippocampus in how humans mentally travel in time and space
Based on research findings gathered so far, humans are the only species on Earth also able to imagine chronological sequences that never happened but that might be in some ways connected to real events. This ability lies at the basis of what is known as causal reasoning, which entails identifying cause-and-effect relationships, such as 'if this thing happens in the future, then that other thing could happen."
Researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Manipal Institute of Technology and Université Paris-Saclay have recently carried out a study investigating the role of brain regions within the hippocampus formation in the human ability to navigate through imagined events rooted in a different time or space.
NASA seeks volunteers to study social isolation, confinement
NASA recently announced that it will select a handful of volunteers this fall for an 8-month study that examines the physiological and psychological effects of social isolation and confinement that could occur on trips to the moon and Mars.
Space travel expands the definition of “social distancing” beyond the meaning commonly associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, Brandon Vessey, PhD , deputy element scientist for flight analogs at NASA, told Healio Primary Care.
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NASA wants you to design a space toilet for missions to the moon - CNET
Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti shows off the hose on the current toilet for when you need to pee.
In addition to having the new toilet function in both microgravity and lunar gravity, it has to adhere to a set of strict specifications. It must have a mass of less than 15 kilograms in Earth's gravity, occupy a volume no greater than 0.12 meter cubed, consume less than 70 watts of power, operate with a noise level less than 60 decibels (no louder than an average bathroom fan) and accommodate both female and male users of different shapes and sizes.
VIRGIN GALACTIC SIGNS SPACE ACT AGREEMENT WITH NASA FOR PRIVATE ORBITAL SPACEFLIGHT TO THE
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) ("Virgin Galactic" or "the Company"), a vertically integrated aerospace company, announced today the signing of a Space Act Agreement with NASA's Johnson Space Center to encourage commercial participation in orbital human spaceflight to the International Space Station ("ISS") while enabling the development of a robust economy in Low Earth Orbit.
Under the agreement, Virgin Galactic will develop a new private orbital astronaut readiness program. This program will include identifying candidates interested in purchasing private astronaut missions to the ISS, the procurement of transportation to the ISS, on-orbit resources, and ground resources. Supporting and coordinating the use of ISS resources will be an important point of integration required for each private astronaut mission.
Orbital liberties - SpaceX is making human space travel a routine form of commerce | Leaders |
A T AN ALTITUDE of 400km, with both vessels travelling at 7.7km a second, the Crew Dragon capsule took orbital advantage of a freedom denied to the socially distanced on Earth to come within two metres of the International Space Station. After a final 20 seconds of stately approach the Endeavour 's capture ring made contact with the station's docking adaptor. The short voyage's simple, straightforward end belied its significance.
In May 2012 SpaceX, a Californian firm founded by Elon Musk, started using its spacecraft to make cargo deliveries to the space station built by America, Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada. (They started being used to bring the station's rubbish back down a week later.) The mission it launched on May 30th, though, used a completely revamped version of the firm's Dragon capsule to carry up something much more precious: two astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley.
Why space travel demands a well-stocked cosmic pharmacy | Genetic Literacy Project
In space, no one can hear you sneeze. But if an astronaut does catch the flu, it can be a major problem. With the nearest Walgreens several hundred kilometers away, every medication an astronaut could possibly need on a space mission must be packed beforehand. It makes designing a pharmacy for space extremely complicated.
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