The mission intended to simulate humanity’s eventual journey to Mars finished today after 520 days. How did this experiment work? Find out after the jump.
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Video: Living on the ISS
Belgium’s second person in space, ESA astronaut Frank De Winne, explains what life is like on the International Space Station in this video.
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An interview with an astronaut
Have a read of our extended interview with famed ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, as featured in How It Works issue 27, on sale today.
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GOCE satellite views Earth’s gravity
The European Space Agency’s GOCE satellite (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer) has just imaged the Earth’s gravity in HD
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Spacecraft to prove Einstein’s theory of general relativity
Three spacecraft orbiting the Sun and 3 million miles apart are to fire lazer beams at each other across the emptiness of space in order to finally prove whether Einstein’s theory of general relativity is true or not
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CryoSat-2 launches successfully
Find out what happened right here.
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Video: Space debris cleared by CubeSail
Watch this amazing new device here.
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18-month exile for cosmonauts
In preparation for the Mars500 project which begins in May, four candidates who wish to accompany the mission at a later date (only two can go), have volunteered to be locked away in steel containers for 18 months in order to test their mental resilience for extended spaceflight
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Phobos revealed
Phobos, Mars’ small rocky moon, has been imaged closer than ever before by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft