A day in the life of an astronaut

In 2026, a team of astronauts will float inside a glossy white cylinder orbiting hundreds of kilometres above Earth. But this won’t be the International Space Station (ISS). It’ll be Haven-1 – the wor

‘The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, it seems like an awful waste of space,’ wrote the American astronomer and author Carl Sagan in his book, Contact. Ever since humans first huddled

HOW THE ASTRONAUT PUSHES ONE NASA ROCKETEER TO PSYCHOLOGICAL EXTREMES

Some people say only qualified astronauts should be blasting into orbit.

Your dusty, distant destination awaits, with unique geology that reveals billions of years of cosmic collisions

I found your recent article Are We Aliens? (June, p62) very interesting. I noticed it mentioned that samples from the Mars Sample Return mission would “give us further clues” about the panspermia theo