Commercial Spaceflight1

Space Tourism Insurance: What Happens When You Crash into a Space Station?

By Guest Author on October 22, 2013

For tourists, space travel represents an exciting and unexplored frontier. For insurers, the prospect of insuring commercial space travel offers... Read more →

Space Medicine

In Focus: Why Spaceflight is Becoming Blurrier over Time

By Nikita Marwaha on October 21, 2013

Scientists have long known that extended spaceflight leads to changes in the human body such as muscle atrophy, bone loss, and fluid shift.... Read more →

Kessler Syndrome2

Space Junk: Why Gravity is More Plausible than You Might Think

By Guest Author on October 18, 2013

Gravity, the new space thriller starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, is being hailed as one of the greatest movies of modern science-fiction.... Read more →

Spacecraft Design

Novel Thrusters Being Developed for Nanosats

By Siddharth Raval on October 17, 2013

L. Brad King's prototype of a ferrofluid ion thruster. When subjected to voltage, the points of the crown arise from a ring-shaped trench circling a... Read more →

News

European Mars Rover Prototype on Test in Chile

By Phillip Keane on October 15, 2013

Bridget the rover, roaming the Atacama Desert (Credit: ESA/M. van Winnendael). In early October 2013, the Atacama Desert became the site of a Mars... Read more →

Analog Study

World Space Walk 2013: 4 Suits, 3 Countries, 2 Planets, 1 Goal

By Carmen Felix on October 15, 2013

On October 8th, during the celebrations of World Space Week, it was tested for the first time: an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) designed for... Read more →