NASA’s position as the leader of space exploration is in trouble.
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SpaceX Plans Back-to-Back Falcon 9 Missions This Week
A veteran #Falcon9 is set to become @SpaceX’s 3rd most-flown booster later tonight, as B1059 launches for the 6th time.
Biotech fit for the Red Planet: New method for growing cyanobacteria under Mars-like conditions
NASA, in collaboration with other leading space agencies, aims to send its first human missions to Mars in the early 2030s, while companies like SpaceX may do so even earlier. Astronauts on Mars will need oxygen, water, food, and other consumables. These will need to be sourced from Mars, because importing them from Earth would be impractical in the long term. In Frontiers in Microbiology, scientists show for the first time that Anabaena cyanobacteria can be grown with only local gases, water, and other nutrients and at low pressure. This makes it much easier to develop sustainable biological life support systems.
