Space Travel
# space-travel - Monday 17 June, 2013
These people are NASA’s eight new astronauts
The astronauts will earn between $64,000 and $141,000 per year, and will be part of the team that lays the groundwork for NASA missions.
# space-travel - Thursday 16 May, 2013
NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft is broken – but they’re determined to fix it
The planet-hunting telescope is 40 million miles from Earth and searches for Earth-like planets outside our solar system.
# space-travel - Sunday 3 March, 2013
Are humans or robots the future of space travel?
“We are a long way from the Terminator, or the Matrix” says Nasa chief historian.
# space-travel - Thursday 28 February, 2013
Tycoon wants to send couple on Mars mission
Many of the finer details of the Inspiration Mars project – initially funded by the world’s first space tourist Dennis Tito – have yet to be worked out but it is hoped it will allow for zero-gravity sex.
# space-travel - Sunday 27 January, 2013
Column: Why I want to be Ireland’s first female astronaut
Engineer, Norah Patten, has always been fascinated with space and has even made a career out of it. Now she wants to be Ireland’s first female astronaut. Here she tells us why.
# space-travel - Saturday 15 December, 2012
Column: Why it’s important to look at the stars – literally
It’s good to be curious about a world outside our own, because being inquisitive in the past has gotten us where we are today, writes Conor Farrell.
# space-travel - Tuesday 23 October, 2012
US-Russian crew blasts off for space station
NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and Russians Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin face what may be the heaviest workload in the 12-year history of the space station.
# space-travel - Sunday 14 October, 2012
World record: Daredevil Felix Baumgartner skydives from 24.2 miles above Earth
The Austrian skydiver jumped from about 128,000 feet above earth – breaking the sound barrier in his four-minute freefall.
# space-travel - Friday 6 July, 2012
Out of This World Pic of the Day
A view from Mars.
# space-travel - Sunday 24 June, 2012
Chinese astronauts make first successful docking with space lab
The docking was a significant moment for China, which is aiming to build a space station by 2020.
# space-travel - Sunday 6 May, 2012
The year 2000? Space suits, moon pants and teaching TVs
Everyday items of the year 2000… according to predictions made in 1962.
# space-travel - Tuesday 1 May, 2012
Video: Your uber-fast future commute to work?
Shopping in New York, dinner in Beijing and home in time for bed – it could be possible…
# space-travel - Monday 23 April, 2012
And here is the view from space…
NASA timelapse photos. It’s a wonderful world.
# space-travel - Tuesday 17 April, 2012
In pictures: Discovery missions from 1984 to 2011
As the retired shuttle prepares to make its last journey – by plane – to a museum in Washington, we look back over its 27-year career.
# space-travel - Tuesday 20 March, 2012
Ashton Kutcher wants to be a space cadet
Richard Branson revealed that the actor is the latest addition to his Virgin Galactic space flight on his blog.
# space-travel - Tuesday 13 March, 2012
Long missions in space may damage eyesight
Prolonged periods of space travel might damage astronauts eyesight according to new research. NASA say they are not unduly worried.
# space-travel - Wednesday 28 December, 2011
NASA probe to arrive at the moon on New Year’s Eve
The spacecraft has been travelling for almost 4 months – but will slip into the moon’s orbit this weekend.
# space-travel - Friday 16 December, 2011
Russian spacecraft set to crash back to Earth next month
The unmanned Phobos-Ground craft, which was set to land on one of Mars’s moons, will return sometime in January.
# space-travel - Wednesday 14 December, 2011
Microsoft co-founder announces plans for commercial space travel
Forget Browser Wars: now Paul Allen wants to go head-to-head with Richard Branson in offering commercial space flight.
# space-travel - Tuesday 15 November, 2011
In pictures: What is China building in the Gobi desert?
A bizarre series of huge structures have appeared on satellite images in a remote area of China…
# space-travel - Monday 14 November, 2011
Watch: manned Russian Soyuz launches from Kazakhstan
Three men were on board the rocket as it heads for the International Space Station where they will remain until March next year.
# space-travel - Wednesday 9 November, 2011
Russia’s race against time to save Mars moon probe
Russian spacecraft engineers have three days to reset the onboard computers of a probe bound for Mars, which is stuck in orbit.
The 9 at 9: Wednesday
Nine things to know this morning…
# space-travel - Sunday 6 November, 2011
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
The very best of the week’s writing from around the world.
# space-travel - Wednesday 24 August, 2011
Astronauts may face food shortage after Russian supply craft crashes
An unmanned Russian craft, carrying nearly three tons of food, water and oxygen, is lost after it fails to reach orbit.
# space-travel - Wednesday 17 August, 2011
Room with a view: Russia unveils plans for new hotel… in space
There are ambitious plans for the so-called Space Hotel to be opened by 2016.
# space-travel - Sunday 10 July, 2011
Watch live: Space shuttle Atlantis docks at International Space Station
The last ever shuttle mission arrives at the space station today. Watch the historic event live.
# space-travel - Wednesday 1 June, 2011
Endeavour makes safe landing as Atlantis prepares for final mission
Endeavour’s final mission ends safely – just as Atlantis is rolled out to a launch pad ahead of the last ever Shuttle mission.
# space-travel - Monday 30 May, 2011
Endeavour departs International Space Station for the final time
Endeavour is now on its way back to Earth after completing NASA’s construction efforts on the International Space Station.
# space-travel - Thursday 19 May, 2011
Good news from space: Gabrielle Giffords doing “really well” after skull surgery
Astronaut Mark Kelly says an operation on his wife’s skull has gone successfully – from the International Space Station.
# space-travel - Tuesday 12 April, 2011
Celebrations mark 50th anniversary of man’s first journey into space
Celebrations are taking place to mark the 50th anniversary of the first man to travel into space – Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin – in 1961.
# space-travel - Thursday 30 September, 2010
Russian company plans to build space hotel
You just might be holidaying in this comfortable four-room cosmic hotel in the next few years. Providing you’re a billionaire, of course.
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