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Don’t Panic: How Space Emergency Astronaut Training Works
Routines. They tell you when to get up in the morning, what to do at your day job and how…
How To Hit A Landing Target On Mars … Potentially, Precisely and Perfectly!
It's frustrating to make it all the way to Mars, only to land in the wrong spot. So as Masten…
Water Likely Flowed In This Parched Martian Region
Don't let the dry appearance of the Martian desert region near Tagus Valles fool you. Some pictures snapped by the…
Doctor Who? Astronauts Need To Figure Out Medical Procedures Before Leaving Earth
Should an astronaut get sick on the International Space Station, that could be a bad scene given the nearest hospital…
Spacesuit Water Leak Prompts NASA Mishap Investigation
In the wake of a spacesuit water leak that sent two astronauts back to the airlock early during a spacewalk…
Black Hole Bonanza! Dozens (Potentially) Found In Andromeda As Another Study Probes X-Rays
More than two DOZEN potential black holes have been found in the nearest galaxy to our own. As if that…
This Machine Could Help Robots Stick The Landing On Other Worlds
Mission planners really hate it when space robots land off course. We're certainly improving the odds of success these days…
With Russian Meteor Fresh In Everyone’s Memory, ESA Opens An Asteroid Monitoring Center
It's been about three months since that infamous meteor broke up over Chelyabinsk, Russia. In that time, there's been a lot…
‘Major Tim’ Peake to Make first British Long-duration Spaceflight
The name is Peake. Timothy Peake. And he's set to follow in the (fictional) footsteps of fellow British citizen James…
Milky Way’s Black Hole Munches On Supercooked Gas
It's a simple menu, but smoking hot. The black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is sucking…