Sunday Space Links

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Northwestern: Ground-based simulations indicate that astronauts would probably see significant performance deterioration in the cramped environment of an interplanetary spacecraft. Testing different analog habitats allows us to test existing volume requirement models.

CSA: Canada becomes NASA's first international partner on the Deep Space Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, pledging to contribute a robotic manipulator arm for the proposed space station. Initial press releases indicate that it will indeed be known as Canadarm 3.

JPL: Laboratory experiments aiming to replicate the environments of the early ocean depths successfully created amino acids and other organic molecules, demonstrating another path for synthesizing the biochemical building-blocks of life.

ESA: Instruments aboard Mars Express and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provide evidence that ancient Martian groundwater bodies were interconnected, similar to Terra's hydrosphere.

NASA: The SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle successfully launched to orbit and docked with the International Space Station this weekend. This is a major milestone towards Commercial Crew operations and represents the first time a spacecraft designed for humans launched from the United States since 2011.