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Prestigious awards go to U.S. Navy Aerospace Experimental Psychologists attached to NAMRU-Dayton Photo By Megan Mudersbach | U.S. Navy Aerospace Experimental Psychologists assigned to Naval Medical Research Unit.. read moreread more Photo By Megan Mudersbach | U.S. Navy Aerospace Experimental Psychologists assigned to Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton (NAMRU-Dayton) prepare for a test profile in the Disorientation Research Device, also known as the Kraken. As a basic research device, the Kraken can be customized for specific project needs. Here, NAMRU-Dayton researchers use the Kraken to study the impact of spatial disorientation and visual illusions on aircrew performance. Lt. Cmdr. Brennan Cox (left), Deputy Director, Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory (NAMRL), NAMRU-Dayton and Lt. Sarah Sherwood (right), Acting Department Head, Acceleration and Sensory Sciences Departm
First space tourist plans 2018 Mars trip
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Dennis Tito, multimillionaire and founder of the non-profit Inspiration Mars Foundation, plans to partner with SpaceX to send a two-person crew on a Mars fly-by in 2018. (File/UPI Photo/NASA) | License Photo
Dennis Tito, multimillionaire and founder of the non-profit Inspiration Mars Foundation, will host a press conference on Feb. 27 detailing his “Mars-shot” plan. He became the world’s first space tourist in 2001, when he spent a little over a week living on board the International Space Station, reportedly spending $20 million for his adventure.
He intends to hire Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, to send a spaceship beyond low-Earth orbit. According to a NewSpace Journal report based on an Inspiration Mars paper detailing the proposed mission, a modified SpaceX Dragon capsule will be the spaceship of choice, launched on the Falcon Heavy rocket currently in development.
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U.S. Scientists Look to the Moon to Save Earth’s Biodiversity
Humanity has the responsibility to protect biodiversity, Thanga said.
The potential for catastrophic biodiversity loss has University of Arizona scientists in the United States working on a “lunar ark” to one day store seeds on the moon – a concept that comes amid deepening concern about the Svalbard Seed Vault and other storage sites that remain on an increasingly vulnerable earth.