The largest and most powerful rocket ever built has blasted off from Texas but blew up within minutes in a test flight that its makers, SpaceX, hope will be the first step on a human journey to Mars. After a…
Nasa reveals new spacesuit for Artemis moon landing
The big, puffy white moonsuits worn by Neil Armstrong and his fellow Apollo astronauts a half-century ago are out of fashion. Lunar haute couture now calls for something more form-fitting and comfortable for men and women. Nasa on Wednesday unveiled…
European Space Agency cuts ties with Russia on Mars rover mission
The European Space Agency terminated its cooperation with Russia to launch Europe’s first planetary rover, the agency’s chief said Tuesday. Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, and ESA were collaborating on a mission involving the European ExoMars Rover, designed to look…
*Lagos police command rescues another abandoned baby (Punch)*CAC wades into Balogun Business Association crisis (ThisDay)
Lagos police command rescues another abandoned baby (Punch) Barely two months after an abandoned day-old newborn was rescued near a bush in the Oko-Oba area of Lagos, another baby abandoned around Orile bus stop has been found by the police.…
NASA successfully flies small helicopter on Mars
The American space agency has successfully flown a small helicopter on Mars. The drone, called Ingenuity, was airborne for less than a minute, but Nasa is celebrating what represents the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.…
UAE’s first Mars mission ‘to launch within weeks’
The first Arab space mission to Mars is preparing to lift off within weeks. Fuelling is due to begin next week. It will take seven months to travel the 493 million km (308 million miles) to reach Mars and begin…
*Man rejected by Lagos hospital over COVID-19 fear dies (Punch) *WARIF takes COVID-19, sexual violence awareness to rural communities (Guardian)
Man rejected by Lagos hospital over COVID-19 fear dies (Punch) A man, identified simply as Joel, has lost his life after he was allegedly refused treatment by the Isolo General Hospital in Lagos State over fear of being a COVID-19…
Mission to Mars may require astronauts to wear swimming goggles (Telegraph)
Swimming goggles could be used to protect astronauts’ eyes on long missions to Mars, a new study suggests. Experiments by Nasa scientists found goggles protected vision by boosting the pressure of fluid inside the eye. Astronauts on long missions at…
NASA to advance unique 3D printed sensor technology (STRN)
A NASA technologist is taking miniaturisation to the extreme. Mahmooda Sultana won funding to advance a potentially revolutionary, nanomaterial-based detector platform. The technology is capable of sensing everything from minute concentrations of gases and vapor, atmospheric pressure and temperature, and…
Wow! Stunning new images of Mars crater full of thick ice revealed (Outlook)
A massive ice-filled hole on the surface of Mars has been revealed in images beamed back from a spacecraft orbiting the red planet. The European Space Agency shared the images captured by its Mars Express probe which show a giant…