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Embryonic development—lost in space?
Despite other challenges, biological difficulties may be the primary obstacle to successful mammalian reproduction and development in orbit, according to new findings by Teruhiko Wakayama and his coll...
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Read moreAmes Laboratory scientist using low-gravity space station lab to study crystal growth
A research project 10 years in the making is now orbiting the Earth, much to the delight of its creator Rohit Trivedi, a senior metallurgist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory. Equipme...
Materials Sciences | Read moreSpace-related radiation research could help reduce fractures in cancer survivors
It is well documented that living in the microgravity environment of space causes bone loss in astronauts, but until recently, little was known about the effects of space radiation on bones. Dr. Ted B...
Health and Medicine | Read moreNew System Tests Water Quality in Orbit
“Now they bring water back on the space shuttle and analyze it on the ground. The problem is there is a big delay. You’d like to be able to maintain iodine or silver [disinfectant] levels in real time...
Life Sciences | Read moreExperiments show 'artificial gravity' can prevent muscle loss in space
When the Apollo 11 crew got back from the moon, 40 years ago this week, they showed no ill effects from seven days spent in weightlessness. But as American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts beg...
Health and Medicine | Read moreScientists funded to design concepts for NASA microgravity experiments
Suborbital spacecraft are launched into space, but do not have enough speed to achieve orbit. They experience several minutes of microgravity ("free fall") and exposure to the environment of...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreESA and Argentina sign extension of Cooperation Agreement
The Exchange of Letters to renew the Cooperation Agreement between the Argentine Republic and ESA was signed by René Oosterlinck, ESA’s Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations, and Ambassador...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreNASA MidSTAR-1 Successful Technologies May Be Revolutionary
These technologies were collaboratively developed between NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.; and Eclipse Energy Systems Inc. of var...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreYES2 team claims a space tether world record
A day before the Foton-M3 spacecraft returned to Earth, a small re-entry capsule, named Fotino, was to be released from the end of a 30 km tether, the longest such structure ever to be deployed in spa...
Information Technology | Read moreFluid theory confirmed by Foton
Although the Foton was only launched a week ago, the scientists are already very excited about the data they have received from their experiment, known as GRADFLEX (GRAdient-Driven FLuctuation EXperim...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreLift-off for Foton microgravity mission
Nearly 9 minutes later, the Russian Foton-M3 spacecraft separated from the rocket's upper stage and was inserted into a 300 km orbit that will carry it around the Earth once every 90 minutes. The...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreShuttle brings space-grown strep bacteria back for study
The space travelers Niesel was meeting weren’t astronauts. They were Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria, members of a species commonly found in the human upper respiratory tract but in this case riding...
Life Sciences | Read moreName and designer logo revealed for Paolo Nespoli’s Shuttle mission to the ISS
The mission has been dubbed Esperia from the Ancient Greek name for the Italian peninsula.The choice of name reflects how Nespoli's Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreMedia bid farewell to Jules Verne
The ATV is presented in two sections. The section containing rocket engines, flight electronics and the propellant is still surrounded with 10-metre high scaffolding. The journalists get their last gl...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreScientists rehearse for Foton mission
Scheduled for launch on 14 September 2007 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, the unmanned Foton M3 mission will carry 35 ESA experiments in life and physical sciences. The Foton capsule will spend ...
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