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The launch of the satellite Sputnik in 1957 ignited a race between the world’s two great rival powers. The United States and the former Soviet Union, USSR each poured vast amounts of resources into the research and development of technologies for the exploration of outer space. Sputnik and the impressive [...]
Virgin Galactic Once a week at dawn, C.J. Sturckow guns a blue Extra 330SC stunt plane into the pink sky above the Mojave Desert. At 14,000 feet, the 5-foot-9 former NASA astronaut starts doing his "card" – a checklist of rolls and spins meant to simulate spaceflight's G-forces. White-knuckling the [...]
Humans are not built for space. That fact becomes most obvious when astronauts return to Earth with atrophied muscles, weakened bones, cardiovascular problems, and some immune deficiencies. And it seems we also age faster in space, too. A study published earlier this month in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology [...]
Locations are also being considered in the West Country and Scotland Would be the launching base for space tourism programmes Plans enthusiastically backed by Science Minister David Willetts Could become the home of Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic programme Plans for a multi-million pound ‘space port’ in Britain were yesterday enthusiastically [...]
