Editor’s note: Astronaut Thomas Pesquet carries out investigations with the spectrometer associated with the ESA Electronic FieldBook
Astronauts and Explorers
ESA AWAY Team Training – CAVES And PANGEA 2025
ESA reserve astronaut Arnaud Prost using the EFB microscope to define the content of mafic mineral of an analogue lunar rock in the Flakstadøya intrusive complex. Astrobiology, AwayTeam,
Offworld Protein Chemistry: ISS Ring Sheared Drop Module
Scientists can study protein solutions without interference from container walls and gravity driven forces present on Earth using the space station’s Ring Sheared Drop module.
Planetary Bioinformatics: Breaking Through Biology’s Data Wall On Earth
Editor’s note: If we aspire to mount expeditions to new worlds and then embrace the task of characterizing and quantifying whatever life forms we find, the ability to map and […]
Growing Homes On Mars: Autonomous Construction Using Synthetic Lichens
Inhabiting Mars has long been a futuristic fantasy fueled by science fiction. However, successful landings on our neighboring planet over the past half-century have made this seemingly far-fetched idea increasingly […]
Offworld Space Botany Hardware
NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers is pictured inside the cupola with space botany hardware that supports the LEO Integrated Flori-culture Experiment (LIFE) 01 (Rhodium Plant LIFE) investigation.
Predicting Exploration Crew Medical Officer Training Needs: Applying Evidence-Based Predictive Analytics to Space Medicine Training
Introduction: Predictive analytics may be a useful adjunct to identify training needs for exploration class medical officers onboard deep space vehicles.
Offworld Biotech: Growing Microalgae In Microgravity
NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers shows off research hardware to study how microalgae grow in spaceflight conditions such as microgravity and radiation.
Looking Outward From High Above Our Home World
The Milky Way appears beyond Earth’s horizon in this celestial photograph captured by NASA astronaut Don Pettit using a camera with low light and long duration settings pointed out a […]
Orbital Biotechnology Research
JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut and Expedition 73 Commander Takuya Onishi processes cassettes containing biological fluid samples for installation inside the Advanced Space Experiment Processor-4, a research facility that […]
