Before we decided that sending robots to space was safer and more cost effective than sending humans, every kid wanted to be an astronaut. If you’re parents were cool, they’d buy you the Space Trainer to help you realise your dream of intergalactic travel. More »
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The trapped Chilean miners may face their most severe psychological challenges in a couple of months’ time, if experience from space missions is anything to go by. More »
Because NASA’s hip with the kids, dammit, they’re using both YouTube and Twitter to let the public ask questions of astronaut Mark Polansky, commander of the International Space Station.
Not content with his first astronautic experience, Ex-Microsofter billionaire Charles Simonyi is now training for a second trip to the International Space Station in Spring 2009. Simonyi will be the first repeat Space Adventures customer since the company began sending private citizens into the final frontier in 2001.
