Gus Grissom was hungry. Unfortunately, the commander of the Gemini 3 spacecraft was not scheduled to eat. In fact, there was little food aboard for this brief test flight. And none of the food was for Gus. His crewmate, John Young, did have food. He was assigned that horrible early space food that you eat [...]

An international crew, stationed in Moscow, is preparing for a mission to Mars—starting Tuesday. The six, led by a cosmonaut trainee, Sergei N. Ryazansky, will spend more than 100 days eating dehydrated food, breathing recycled air…and living in isolation from the rest of the human race. Only they won’t be going anywhere. Simulated mission It’s [...]

An unmanned space plane, originally developed by NASA but now operated by the Air Force, will make a test flight April 19th. The X37B is about a quarter of the size of the shuttle. When the project was canceled by NASA in 2004, to concentrate on the (now apparently doomed) Constellation project, it found a [...]