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3D printing in outer space and on alien planets comes with otherworldly challenges.
Sending a nuclear fission reactor into space means lots of technical questions. One research group is coming up with models that could improve how a nuclear rocket starts up and powers down.
High levels of cognitive performance and effective teamwork are crucial to long-duration space missions.
Of the three probes to reach Mars this month, only two will land. But they will add to our growing knowledge of the red planet, and the search for evidence of life.
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission has arrived and landed the Perseverance Rover on the red planet. The rover’s goal is to collect rock and soil samples to be brought back to Earth in the future.
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Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria Research Institute; The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London
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Professor of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Professor of Engineering Design, Electrical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems and Data Science, Anglia Ruskin University