Collaborate Disseminate
A recent study in Nature Scientific Reports by Jonathan P. R. Scott and colleagues makes the case for sending exclusively all-female crews on long-duration missions. The reasoning here is simple: women …read more Continue reading Making the Case For All-Female Exploration Missions to Mars and Beyond
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys go down the rabbit hole of hacky hacks. A talented group of radio amateurs have been recording and decoding the messages from Tianwen-1, the Mars probe launched by the Chinese National Space Administration on July 23rd. We don’t know exactly how magnets work, …read more
InSight is the first Mars mission to focus on the red planet’s interior, and will drill a hole five meters into its surface. Continue reading NASA Successfully Landed Its Digging Robot on Mars
“We are planning to try to get our yeast to the International Space Station in next couple of years.” Continue reading Yeast Can Be Engineered to Turn Astronaut Pee Into Spaceflight Materials
/Musk’s Mars plans stole the show at the Astronautical Congress, but Lockheed’s vision for a Mars Base Camp makes a lot more sense. Continue reading A Tale of Two Mars Missions