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06/21/2018 / By Edsel Cook

The radical plan to design a starship out of hollowed out asteroids

Dutch-based researchers have a radical plan for any near-Earth asteroid that can be hollowed out by asteroid miners. They are going to turn it into a huge starship that can travel between stars, an article in the Daily Mail states. This generational ship would be big enough to hold entire generations of crew and passengers […]

06/13/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Could the new type of food for astronauts be made from zooplankton? Biologists seem to think so

Provisions are among the biggest challenges for manned spaceflight missions. Food must not take up so much space or weight that the spacecraft’s performance suffers. In an Alpha Galileo article, therefore, German researchers suggested that spacecraft should carry zooplankton as a lightweight source of essential nutrients for astronauts. One potential candidate is the water flea (Daphnia), […]

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