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50 years of women in space
On 16 June 1963, the Soviet Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to orbit the Earth. Fifty years on, and there have been only 57 female astronauts for over 470 men!
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A new Cité de l'Espace
The space adventure park in Toulouse has completely redesigned and renewed its permanent exhibitions. The result is an interactive immersion into man's enthusiasm for the stars.
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@explorezmars: Curiosity live!
On Monday 6 August the Mars rover Curiosity should land on the red planet. From today Enjoy Space and Cité de l’Espace are offering you the chance to follow this event on Twitter, and then by video, direct from the NASA JPL in California!
No life with arsenic?
On 2 December 2010, NASA announced that a study it was financing demonstrated that GFAJ-1 bacteria used arsenic (normally a poison) to live and reproduce. NASA said at the time that “the definition of life has just expanded” (see this article). This discovery has now been brought into question by two scientific articles published in the prestigious Science review, the same one that also accepted the paper claiming the use of arsenic by the GFAJ-1 bacteria.
Published on 10 July 2012
