A NEW alien ‘superbug’ has been discovered aboard the International Space Station. Despite the highly controlled environment on the ISS, an insect hitched a ride into space, where scientists were able to observe the mutating pathogen over the course of two years. A mutated, drug-resistant ‘superbug’ has been found aboard the International Space Station.Credit: Getty … Read more
Space changes you, even during short trips off-planet. Four people who spent three days outside Earth in September 2021 experienced physical and mental changes, including modest declines in cognitive tests, stressed immune systems and genetic changes in their cells, scientists report in a package of papers published Tuesday in the journal Nature and several other … Read more
Listen here on your chosen podcast platform. As the likes of Elon Musk continue to promote their grand plans to one day send humans to Mars, new research suggests that the way human organs respond to being in space could throw a spanner in the works. A team of researchers led by University College London … Read more
Research shows that the four crew members of Inspiration4, the first ever fully civilian space mission, have become genetically younger during their time in space. But the effects didn’t last long. Scientists are now trying to unravel how the space environment affects human DNA. The Inspiration4 crew members had a packed schedule during their three-day … Read more
Two NASA astronauts filmed a tour of Boeing’s Starliner, showing the public around the spacecraft that took them to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday (June 6). Starliner docked with the ISS at 1:34 PM EDT (1734 GMT) on Friday, 26 hours after the capsule launched on its first-ever crewed flight. The crew includes … Read more
In 2026, NASA plans to land humans on the moon for the first time since 1972. Times have changed, as evidenced by new rockets, spacecraft and spacesuits. In preparation for the Artemis 3 moon landing mission, two astronauts put on the new spacesuits from Axiom Space at the end of April and tested for the … Read more
After two trips to the launch pad that ultimately did not go into space, two NASA astronauts finally went into space Wednesday in a vehicle built by Boeing, the aerospace giant. The maiden voyage of Starliner, a 15-foot-wide capsule, with astronauts on board comes four years and six days after SpaceX, the other company NASA … Read more
Editor’s note: This release was updated on June 5, 2024 to include instructions on how to attend the post-docking briefing on Thursday, June 6. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are safely in orbit during the first crewed test flight aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft en route to the International Space Station. As part of … Read more
American news By Associated Press Published June 2, 2024, 10:55 am ET CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Last-minute computer problems thwarted Saturday’s launch attempt for Boeing’s first astronaut flight, the latest in a series of delays over the years. Two NASA astronauts were strapped into the company’s Starliner capsule when the countdown was automatically stopped at … Read more
In late 2019, Boeing seemed to have a good chance of beating SpaceX and becoming the first private U.S. company to put astronauts into orbit. In the four and a half years since then, a lot has gone wrong. Here’s a timeline of the setbacks that caused Boeing to fall so far behind SpaceX in … Read more