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Martian Environment Is Ideally Suited For Crop Farming, Study Says
Mars FarmNASA/KSC Mars Greenhouse ProjectIf we ever decide to colonize Mars, it might be fairly simple to grow crops in that red soil, according to a new study. Mars' reduced gravity could let us use...
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NASA and DARPA Plan ‘Hundred-Year Starship’ To Bring Humans to Other Worlds...
Mars MiningNASAThis Mars miner will probably never go home again.If NASA ever gets a clear directive for interplanetary exploration, a new Hundred-Year Starship could be their version of the Mayflower....
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Attention Astro-Parents: Your Spacebabies May Be Deformed
Zebrafish EmbryosAdam Amsterdam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology via WikimediaMmmmmmmm, zebrafish embryos.The Journal of Cosmology recently published a special issue concerning the requisites for...
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Hazards of Space Would Make Sex Up There Tricky, Say NASA Researchers
Solar FlareNASAHere's some futurey Valentine's Day news: Future space colonists would likely be unable to procreate because of the ionizing radiation that permeates the solar system, according to a...
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SpaceX Will Send Humans To Mars In the Next 10 to 20 Years
SpaceX's Dragon Spacecraft Separating from its Falcon 9 Carrier RocketSpaceX, Courtesy of NASASpaceX will send humans to Mars within 10 to 20 years, according to an interview with its CEO in the Wall...
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Earth-Based Mars500 Crew Breaks Endurance Record For Longest "Space" Mission
Get Us Out of HereESAAn increasingly pale six-member crew on a fake mission to Mars has just reached a new landmark: 438 days in isolation. The streak beats the record held by someone who actually...
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Augmented Reality Will Help Future Astronauts Perform Surgery on Each Other
Augmented Reality Medical ExamESA/Space Applications Service NVThe Computer Assisted Medical Diagnosis and Surgery System, CAMDASS, is a wearable augmented reality prototype that could someday allow...
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Mars500 Crew Became Lazy And Sleepy During Moscow-Based Fake Space Mission
The Red Glasses Really Make It Look Like MarsIBMPFor a while there, life in a bunker designed to simulate a 520-day mission to Mars looked kind of fun. The "cosmonauts" had video games, fake fireplaces...
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Apply Now For A One-Way Trip To Mars
Mars colonyBryan Versteeg / Mars OneWant to live and die on Mars? Mars One has officially begun its worldwide search for astronauts who will fly to Mars in 2023—and never come back.The first humans on...
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This Is What Traveling To Mars Does To Your Brain
'Salad machine' of the Mars500: preparing the salad cassetteESAA member of the Mars500 crew prepares to harvest vegetables grown in a simulated spacecraft environment.Future Mars astronauts will have...
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