SpaceX‘s Crew Dragon spaceship will be equipped with a domed window for the world’s first all-civilian mission to space later this year, Inspiration4. The company posted an artist’s impression of the specially modified Crew Dragon on Twitter with the caption: ‘A new view for crew.’ Crew Dragon’s additional window at the ‘nose’ of the space capsule … Read more
Virgin Galactic has unveiled a new mirrored spaceship called VSS Imagine that is designed to ‘reflect the environment around it’ as it moves through clouds and out to space. The new spaceplane is the third generation craft developed by the New Mexico-based Virgin Galactic and will be more modular, allowing for more rapid development as … Read more
The final frontier: Scientists 3D-print microscopic Star Trek spaceship USS Voyager that ‘swims’ through liquids on its own Team of physicists at Leiden University in the Netherlands created the spaceship Microswimmers are tiny particles that can propel themselves through liquids Research improves understanding of how microswimmers deliver drugs in body The team decided to make … Read more
Richard Branson-owned space firm Virgin Galactic has unveiled the design of the cabin and seats for its SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity, that will take the company’s first fee-paying astronauts to the edge of space. Each seat in the six-person cabin has two personal windows for a view of the Earth below and ‘mood lighting’ linked to … Read more