Space

Dead astronauts in space will be frozen, pulverized into dust by NASA robot arm

3 Sep 2010

As they say: in space, no one can hear you scream… but your fellow astronauts can see you die, and death in space presents so many practical, psychological and moral challenges to NASA that they recently teamed up to with Swedish ecologists Susanne Wiigh-Masak and Peter Masak to invent the first ever space coffin. The Masaks [...]

European Space Agency captures images of huge ice island

3 Sep 2010

The European Space Agency has released dramatic satellite images of the colossal iceberg that broke away from a Greenland glacier last month and is now drifting into Canada's Arctic waters.

Space, a Canadian frontier

3 Sep 2010

He'll be in charge of the $135-billion International Space Station, orbiting the Earth 400 kilometres up, but Chris Hadfield wouldn't dare disobey his wife and shave off his moustache.