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Earth Is Surrounded by Space Trash. How Do We Get Rid of Them?
The space around Earth is increasingly cluttered with discarded rocket bodies, mission-related debris, and thousands of satellites, many…
March 23, 2024
Spacesuits need a major upgrade for the next phase of exploration
NASA Yang Gao, King’s College London Humans have long dreamed of setting foot on the Moon and other…
March 20, 2024
Japan is now the 5th country to land on the Moon – the technology used will lend itself to future lunar missions
Mariel Borowitz, Georgia Institute of Technology Japan landed its Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon, or SLIM, craft…
January 30, 2024
Why isn’t there any sound in space? An astronomer explains why in space no one can hear you scream
Matter in deep space is very spread out, which makes it impossible for any sound waves to travel.…
January 11, 2024
Was going to space a good idea?
NASA Alice Gorman, Flinders University In 1963, six years after the first satellite was launched, editors from the…
January 9, 2024
Returning to Space With Destin Sandlin
Join us in an intimate window into one of Destin Sandlin’s recent talks in the 2023 von Braun…
December 23, 2023
Wearable Devices with Vibrations Enhance Astronaut Training for Safer Spaceflight
A recent study by researchers at Brandeis University explored wearable devices that provide orientation cues through vibrations to…
November 13, 2023