Why studying astronauts' microbiomes is crucial to ensure deep space mission success
Space exploration is a complex and risky mission that requires careful preparation and a thorough understanding of the challenges inherent to life in space.
Space exploration is a complex and risky mission that requires careful preparation and a thorough understanding of the challenges inherent to life in space.
Space Exploration
Feb 8, 2024
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A Mayo Clinic research experiment will be part of a payload that launches into space from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Jan. 29, subject to weather conditions and other factors. The research team ...
Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2024
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The business of sending humans into space has not yet risen to the levels seen during the space shuttle program, but 2024 could see the most U.S.-based orbital launches in 15 years.
Space Exploration
Nov 20, 2023
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Every day seems to bring news of multiplying ecological disasters—fires, floods, drought, deforestation, overfishing and coral reef die-offs.
Environment
Sep 6, 2023
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Space travel has always tested the human body by the effects of the new conditions of altered gravity on biological systems. It has long been known that continuous exposure to microgravity conditions human physiology and ...
Space Exploration
Mar 7, 2023
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NASA's Orion spacecraft is heading home after exiting the lunar sphere of influence.
Space Exploration
Dec 8, 2022
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NASA is kicking off its new moon program with a test flight of a brand-new rocket and capsule.
Space Exploration
Nov 15, 2022
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Although bad weather and technical issues forced NASA to postpone its August and September launch attempts for Artemis I—an uncrewed space mission that will voyage around the moon and back—the space agency is looking ...
Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2022
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When NASA's Artemis 1 lunar mission takes off on August 29, on board will be four science experiments—including one from Canada.
Space Exploration
Aug 29, 2022
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The Artemis program is NASA's plan to return humans to the Moon as a stepping stone for an eventual voyage to Mars.
Space Exploration
Aug 28, 2022
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