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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. wants to build nuclear power plants that will work on the moon and Mars, and on Friday put out a request for ideas from the private sector on how to do that.

The U.S. Department of Energy put out the formal request to build what it calls a fission surface power system that could allow humans to live for long periods in harsh space environments.

The Idaho National Laboratory, a nuclear research facility in eastern Idaho, the Energy Department and NASA will evaluate the ideas for developing the reactor.

🔎 Part of NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover mission is to survey Mars’ geology for signs of ancient life, but what does that entail? Where will she search?

Find out in this episode of #EZScience with Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen of NASA and Dr. Ellen Stofan of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution: https://youtu.be/McqMigM_YG8

#CountdownToMars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UDJB7DS1Lo&feature=youtu.be

Interviewed by mika curtis, for the space renaissance academy mentorship programme.

We are honored and proud to publish this interview with Prof. Paul Ziolo, Psychohistorian, Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, who kindly accepted to reply to some questions about his role as a Mentor of the Space Renaissance Academy. https://youtu.be/1UDJB7DS1Lo

The Space Renaissance Academy Mentorship Programme is a wide and very ambitious initiative. Our goal is to provide help to all students willing to have an active role in the incoming space settlement! We are realizing short video-recorded interviews to our Mentors: in 15 minutes, our anchorwomen are asking them about their interest for human expansion into space, their vision and how they think to motivate and inspire young generations to engage in space settlement. The SRI Volunteers team: Bharathi Sharma, Sachika Bhatia (Space Renaissance India), Corrinne Graham (Space Renaissance USA), Mika Curtis (Space Renaissance UK).

Here’s a presentation of the SR Academy Mentorship Programme. https://spacerenaissance.space/the-space-renaissance-acade…/

You are also invited, if you didn’t yet, to check our updated questionnaires about Mentorship Disciplines and Themes for Graduate Theses, indicating your preferred disciplines and themes. https://spacerenaissance.space/themes-for-graduate-works/ https://spacerenaissance.space/themes-for-graduate-works/

Don’t forget to subscribe to the SRI youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7nbRtSj7Q2q_MWRtFws3gA


Mika Curtis (Project Manager, Space Renaissance UK) interviews Prof. Paul Ziolo.

Psychohistorian Research, Consultancy, Counselling. Senior Lecturer, History and Philosophy of Psychology at University of Liverpool. Lectured in psychoanalysis, pre- and perinatal psychology, developmental and
evolutionary psychology, psycholinguistics, history and philosophy of psychology and psychohistory.

CHECK THE SPACE RENAISSANCE ACADEMY MENTORSHIP PROGRAM!
Students: choose some theme(s) for your graduation theses or Ph.D https://spacerenaissance.space/themes…
Mentors: choose your favorite disciplines on which you can provide mentorship https://spacerenaissance.space/mentor…

#spacerenaissance #mentorship #civilianspaceprotocol

A radiation-absorbing fungus found at the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear reactor has been shown to absorb harmful cosmic rays on the International Space Station, and could potentially be used to protect future Mars colonies.

Exposure to cosmic rays poses a major health risk to astronauts leaving Earth’s protective atmosphere. Shields can be made out of stainless steel and other materials, but they must be shipped from Earth, which is difficult and costly.

The ASTHROS mission will be carried on a big balloon that will be about 150 meters wide — or roughly the size of a football stadium — and will be inflated with helium. A carrier below the balloon will hold the instruments and the telescope. During its flight, it will allow scientists to control the direction of the telescope with precision and download the data in real-time using satellite links.

The ASTHROS team expects that stratospheric winds will help the balloon complete two to three loops around the South Pole in approximately 21 to 28 days. Once complete, the parachute will return the carrier to the ground and the telescope will be recovered and refurbished for future missions.

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The U.S. Air Force has realigned some of its major space wings and transferred their missions to the Space Force in one of the largest command overhauls in nearly 40 years.

Space Force officials announced Friday that five Air Force units have moved to the military’s sixth branch. Three wings and eight subordinate groups or centers were deactivated in favor of creating the provisional Space Training and Readiness Command.

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