168 space mice were born from sperm cells stored for over six years on the ISS, floating in the cold space. The incredible study run by the Japanese University of Yamanash investigates the effects of cosmic radiations on rodents fertility. "Freeze-dried sperm cells may survive in space for as long…
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We obtained the fifth state of matter
It's been created on the International Space Station the fifth state of matter, it isn't gaseous, liquid, solid or plasma, but it's something different. What's the point of the 5° state of the matter? According to the scientists of the NASA…
Space X conquers the space
Space X is the private space agency of Elon Musk. Advanced, futuristic and with ambitious dreams, it demonstrated to be the best that there is, nowadays, about space travels and space engineering. It conquered many victories and primacies…
The space walks outside the ISS
An EVA is an extra vehicular activity which is made by an astronaut in the space or outside a spaceship or a station. Obviusly, the EVAs did by humanity are associated to two categories: the moon walks taken during the moon landing or the…
Ricoh Theta, the camera of the ISS
The 360° videos became viral already for a while. They allow us to totally immerse ourselves in the environment, by catching breathtaking panoramas, they give us the possibility to look up to the sky as well as we are there and at the same…
NASA is running out of space suits
The new of the cancellation of the first all female space walk comes from a couple of weeks ago, but the reason is not so recent. It's been years, now, that we know about the lack of space suits. But how is it possible that the NASA doesn't…
Biomex: can terrestrial organisms survive on Mars?
The instinct for survival, that invisible feeling that let us remain hung up to the life with nails and teeth, isn't not own only by the big living being, but even of the smaller ones. That conviction that nothing can survive to the…
Russia is losing the monopoly for the spacial transport of people
It's since the 2011, year when the Space Shuttle made its last flight, that the Soyuz russian pods are the only vehicle able to bring the astronauts on the international space station. By the way in the last months happened a serie of…
The future of the ISS after the Soyuz accidents
The International Space Station remained without spaceships. The Soyuz that travel between the Earth and the station are damaged and now they have to decide how to proceed in the next months. The future of the ISS is compromised and now…
The Japan tests the first prototype of spacial elevator
An old date science-fiction's must is the spacial elevator, a vehicle with the shape of a real elevator, which connects the ground with the space, arriving to connect itself with the orbitant stations.
Problems on the ISS: a micro meteorite damages the Soyuz
“Around the 7 o'clock of Wednesday of 29th of August the air traffic controllers of the International Space Station in Houston and Moscow started to see signs of a small pressure drop in the spacial complex”, it is what is written on the…
Luca Parmitano will be the ISS’ commander
Luca Parmitano is an italian astronaut, which already was the first italian to walk in the space and that soon will conquer another record, as the first italian commander of the ISS.
Mars and the extraterrestrial cultivations
“I will bring you on Mars: are missing only 12 years to send there the first person. If we are great, maybe ten. And there I will create a town, because we need to guarantee the survival of our specie, in case something will go wrong on the…
In few years we can stay between the stars
The sky always enchanted the humans, from the most remote age, and flying between the stars is, without any doubt, the most exciting experience that we could do. “From up here the Earth is amazing, without borders and edges”, are the words…
