Researchers from University of California San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute have discovered that spaceflight accelerates the aging of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), which ...

China set for its first one-year human spaceflight mission, confirms Pakistani astronaut flight China will begin its first one-year duration astronaut mission this year, while the first international ...

Human spaceflight has entered a phase where one company effectively controls the only operational ride to orbit for professional crews and most private passengers. SpaceX has turned what was once a ...

People can do field work better than robots The discussion at Space Politics got me thinking about the scientific value of human spaceflight. Although there are many reasons for humans to go into ...

On Oct. 6, the German Aerospace Center (DLR, Braunschweig) launched a 13.5-meter-long research rocket for the Advanced Technologies for High Energetic Atmospheric Flight of Launcher Stages (ATHEAt) ...