Apr 1, 2026 | Featured, Space
The crew has gotten attention for the firsts beyond the mission itself. Glover will be the first person of color to leave Earth orbit, Koch the first woman to do so and Hansen, a Canadian Space Agency astronaut, the first non-American. “We do think about it a lot,”...
Mar 26, 2026 | Canada, Featured, Space
Canada will cancel its first rover mission to the moon’s south pole as the Canadian government shifts its spending to other projects. The water-seeking moon rover project, first announced by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) in 2021, is terminated in the...
Mar 19, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Satellites, Space
AI systems could soon be able to hijack satellites in orbit and cause them to collide with other spacecraft, potentially triggering a dangerous cascade of smash-ups that could render the environment around Earth unsafe for years, according to experts. Cyber security...
Mar 12, 2026 | Featured, Space
Commercial space infrastructure firm Voyager Technologies is backing lunar habitat developer Max Space with a new multi-million-dollar investment aimed at accelerating development of expandable modules for future missions to the moon. The companies say the partnership...
Mar 4, 2026 | Education, Engineering, Featured, Space
In an effort to retain engineering staff from a $170 million project for NASA, the University of Iowa is renovating the seventh floor of Van Allen Hall to house the Iowa Spaceflight Laboratory, a collection of labs supporting the UI’s efforts in building spaceflight...
Feb 26, 2026 | Healthcare, Space
According to The Independent, a study by a team of researchers found that astronauts’ brains shift upward and backward inside the skull during spaceflight. The longer individuals remained in microgravity, the more pronounced the changes appeared to be. Most of the...
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