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Taikonauts

  On April 1, a spacecraft capable of carrying three people into orbit returned safely to Earth. That may not sound like news after 40 years of manned spaceflights, but this was a very special spacecraft: it was Chinese. Shenzhou (Heavenly Vessel) 3 carried instrumented mannequins instead of humans, but its success makes it more …

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Adapting to space

In the movies, spaceships have artificial gravity, because it’s a heck of a lot easier to film that way. Real-life astronauts aren’t so lucky. The men and women who inhabit the Mir space station spend months in weightlessness. Sure, it’s a lot of fun–flying around, leaving objects hanging in mid-air–but inside those cosmonauts’ and astronauts’ …

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Adapting to space

  In the movies, spaceships have artificial gravity, because it’s a heck of a lot easier to film that way. Real-life astronauts aren’t so lucky. The men and women who inhabit the Mir space station spend months in weightlessness. Sure, it’s a lot of fun–flying around, leaving objects hanging in mid-air–but inside those cosmonauts’ and …

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