Inspired by Mary Roach’s new book “Packing for Mars,” Alan Boyle, on Cosmic Log, essays some thoughts about a NASA-produced video: about half of all astronauts get the final frontier’s version of motion sickness in zero gravity. So it’s virtually guaranteed that some barf bags will be going into the trash. NASA researchers want to […]
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Bees in Space
“Plants grown in space have not produced fruit without astronaut intervention, which raises the question, how do you pollinate plants in space?” The answer maybe provided by the ‘Bees in Space’ project, organised by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. According to their 2006 profile document ‘Bees in Space: Creating a buzz about space […]