Bigelow Aerospace has a dream to create hotels in space using inflatable, expandable modules. Awarded a $17.8 million contract by NASA this week, Bigelow, owned by Robert Bigelow of Budget Suites of America, plans to launch an inflatable module into space where it will remain for two

This week’s five stories look at: Tripling the Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells; New Technology to Fight Coastal Flooding Using Irregular Concrete Blocks; Long Duration Human Space Flight Being Tested on the ISS; Pacific Island Entrepreneurs Receive Award for Green Initiatives;

How does zero gravity affect plants? The answer. It doesn’t. The implications of this discovery are extraordinary. It means we can farm in space knowing that space-grown plants will pretty much grow like they do here on Earth. How do we know this? A research study published in B

The Space Race driven by ideology, economics, nationalism, and the military fuelled the technological advancements in rocketry,  robot spacecraft and human presence beyond Earth’s atmosphere. The ground shifted, however, with the end of the Soviet Union as a rival to the United

In December 1972 the United States sent Apollo XVII to the Moon – the last time a human stepped on the surface of another world. Since then human activity in space has been limited to missions in near-Earth orbit. The rivalry between the Soviet Union (now Russia) and the United