When you think about the food astronauts eat in space, lobster, haddock and foie gras probably don’t spring to mind – but that’s exactly what France’s next visitor to the International Space Station (ISS) will be dining on. Astronaut Sophie Adenot has teamed up with award-winning French chef Anne-Sophie Pic to create a menu of...
Axiom Space Axiom-4 lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Jubilant Indians have been celebrating the successful launch of the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission which has taken off with a multi-country crew, including an Indian astronaut. Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who’s piloting the mission, has become only the second Indian to travel to space....
Kirk England Environment and tourism correspondent, BBC South West BBC Twelve young tea plants from Dartmoor will be placed in to soil very similar to that found on the Moon and on Mars Scientists are using plants from Devon to test whether it is possible to grow tea in space. Seedlings cultivated near Ashburton have...
Ben Woolvin BBC South West home affairs correspondent BBC Connecting Youth is trying to raise money for a new youth space in Plymouth A group of young people in Plymouth is trying to raise £150,000 for a new youth space in Ernesettle. Connecting Youth is a community interest company which is planning to convert a...
North Korea has criticised the US’s plan for a futuristic “Golden Dome” missile shield, saying it could “turn outer space into a potential nuclear war field”. The defence system, which President Donald Trump plans to unveil by the end of his term, is aimed at countering “next-generation” aerial threats to the US, including ballistic and...
BBC News Artwork: The experiment will orbit the Earth for three hours before returning to Earth and splashing down off the coast of Portugal Steak, mashed potatoes and deserts for astronauts could soon be grown from individual cells in space if an experiment launched into orbit today is successful. A European Space Agency (ESA) project...
This week saw more talks to agree a ceasefire in the Ukraine war, Hollywood star Mickey Rourke kicked out of Celebrity Big Brother, and scientists find new evidence of possible life on another planet. But how much attention did you pay to what else has been going on in the world over the past seven...
8 minutes ago ShareSave ShareSave Tuesday’s Metro is one of a number of newspapers which features news of singer Katy Perry being part of an all-female crew which enjoyed 10 minutes in space on Monday. “Look at the moon … oh my God we’re in space”, is Metro’s headline. Perry is pictured holding a daisy...
Today seems as good a time as any for reflecting upon the inanities that have been raised above we mere mortal knuckle-draggers, both in a literal and figurative sense. Space cadets springs to mind, thanks to fawning coverage of Jeff Bezos spending God knows how much money to send his plastic squeeze and some other...
The crew included Katy Perry, Amanda Nguyen, Gayle King, Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sanchez. The flight lasted around 11 minutes and crossed the internationally recognised boundary of space. The last all female crew was a Soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova’s. She completed a solo spaceflight in 1963. Read full article at source...
Watch from launch to landing: All-female crew travels into space Read full article at source...
After the government took control of British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant over the weekend, many of Monday’s front pages consider what might happen next. “Blast chance saloon” is how the Metro describes the government’s “race against time” to obtain sufficient raw materials to keep the blast furnaces running, after ministers accused the plant’s owners of selling...
Pyncher: Space Rocket Simulator (Self Released) Stream Out Now Pyncher are unarguably one of the most happening bands to emerge from the most musically happening city of Manchester in recent years, and they’re at it again with the release of the splendidly named Space Rocket Simulator. We’ve scarcely had chance to draw breath since the...
Marcus Rashford scores his first two goals for Aston Villa in the space of five minutes against Preston North End in their FA Cup quarter-final. Read article in full at source...
