Scientists at the US agency offer advice about remote working, social isolation and quarantine. Scott Bolton knows a thing or two about distance. He is the principal investigator of NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter, and at the best of times his experiment is more than 500 million kilometres away, orbiting a gas giant in the […]
International Space Station
From design to lift-off: blasting experiments into outer space
If you want an astronaut to run your experiment alongside their many other responsibilities, keeping it simple is the key. On 25 July, an experiment that Charles Cockell had spent years planning blasted into space. A SpaceX rocket blasted off from Florida, heading to the International Space Station (ISS). It carried 18 bioreactors, each the […]
Asteroid-Mining Bacteria Blast Off for Space Station
Test of mining prowess of microbes lifted off yesterday. The moons, planets and asteroids of our solar system are full of useful stuff: water to make hydrogen fuel, metals and minerals for construction, even rocks that can be broken down into soil-like material for farming and terraforming. “Virtually all the raw materials you need to […]