Spaceflight can disrupt astronaut immunity, including sustained downregulation of Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class I genes across missions ranging from the three-day Inspiration4 flight to ...

Early Tuesday morning, Polaris Dawn flew through the atmosphere, taking its four crewmembers to the highest altitude humans have experienced since the Apollo era, where they will conduct the first ...

Astronaut and geophysicist Andrew Feustel is a veteran of three NASA spaceflights and alumnus of Purdue EAPS. Currently he is Lead Astronaut with Vast. He spoke with Lucy Flesch, Frederick L. Hovde ...

Approximately 250 mi. above Lake Michigan, International Space Station astronaut Don Pettit captured this long-exposure photograph of city lights streaking across Earth as a green and red aurora moved ...

Western University may be shooting for the stars, but it’s keeping its light under a bushel, for now. School officials declined to answer questions about a planned space exploration institute — one ...

Texas A&M University is preparing for a new era of space research with the launch of a research centrifuge at the Anthony Wood '87 Artificial Gravity Lab. Set to become one of the most advanced human ...

The Sun is the source of energy for life on Earth and is the strongest modulator of the human physical environment. In fact, the Sun’s influence extends throughout the solar system, both through ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Space Commission (TSC) announced that they opened grant applications for the Space Exploration and Aeronautics Research Fund (SEARF), according to a news ...

Space exploration has become one of the strongest forces behind technological advancements because it pushes science and engineering beyond normal limits. Harsh space conditions such as radiation, ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. We live in an extraordinary period of exploration. Over the last few decades, humanity ...