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Space news weekly recap: Artemis program, colliding black holes and more

Space news weekly recap: Artemis program, colliding black holes and more

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Last week, NASA revealed some of the science and technology payloads that will be hitching a ride to deep space with the agency’s Artemis I moon mission. In the same week, a Russian cosmonaut had to cut short his spacewalk because of a space suit battery malfunction. Here is our recap of an exciting week […]

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Space news weekly recap: Artemis program, colliding black holes and more

NASA’s Artemis I mission will send yeast to deep space with BioSentinel

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While NASA’s Artemis I mission is an uncrewed mission, there will be some living passengers on board. BioSentinel, a shoebox-sized CubeSat, will carry microorganisms—in the form of yeast—into deep space so that scientists can fill critical gaps in the knowledge about the health risks of radiation in deep space. The primary objective of BioSentinel is […]

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