Jupiter for CRS and Mars
\nWith an ever pressing need for supplying the International Space Station with independently developed non-NASA logistics vehicles, the race is on for contracts from the space agency to send cargo to the ISS with the new round of bids. Lockheed Martin has put together an international team for this and much, much more.<\/p>\n
Riding the Farnborough centrifuge
\nSpaceflight\u2019s Nick Spall took the opportunity to visit the QinetiQ centrifuge at Farnborough, now celebrating its 50th anniversary in a facility used to train fighter pilots and high-speed test pilots. It is also the kind of familiarization future space-riders will need to fly aboard the SpaceShip2, Lynx and possibly other spaceplanes.<\/p>\n
Sex and health in space
\nWith ambitious proposals for one-way trips to Mars, settlement colonies funded by TV shows and confident expectations among the general public about heading for the Red Planet, the Editor takes a clinical view and looks at the serious medical obstacles standing in the way of humans going on very long journeys beyond Earth.<\/p>\n
New Horizons for Pluto
\nSpaceflight\u2019s resident astronomer Philip Corneille provides a preview of the imminent encounter with Pluto as NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft homes in on one of the solar system\u2019s most enigmatic bodies, providing a recap on how it has haunted astronomers for decades.<\/p>\n
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