Tim Peake: Next stop Mars! | Aida Edemariam
Unmistakable steel … Major Timothy Peake inside an aerospace training module. Photograph: Stefan Pangritz There is something about human space flight that simultaneously feels both…
Neuroscience V Rocket Science: Which is best? | Dean Burnett
Neuroscience v rocket science: is this an MRI scan of a brain or a picture from space? (Admittedly, the stars give it away somewhat). Photograph: Chandra X-ray Observatory Center/Nasa …
Letters: Woolley thinking
Tim Radford (Lost in space, G2, 21 May) repeats the story that the astronomer royal, Sir Richard Woolley, had described space travel as "utter…
Letters: Engineering can be as inspiring as space
British astronaut Tim Peake (centre) with Vince Cable (left) and science minister David Willetts (right) at No 10 Downing St. Photograph: Sean Dempsey/PA The new…
Animal astronauts return from space mission – video
A Russian space capsule containing mice, geckos, gerbils, snails and fish returns to Earth after a month-long mission in space. The Bion-M craft orbited at a height of…
In praise of … the Tim takeoff | Editorial
The sickly child in Dickens and the dog in Blyton – the literary canon was never especially kind to Tims but it was Harry…
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