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Space Issue

PSLV-C28/DMC3 Mission launch. (India Space Research Organisation)

India: The space underdogs

India, an unlikely space giant, has already pulled off a ‘near impossible’ mission on a shoestring budget. What’s next?
ROBERT THIRST. NASA

Question and Astronaut: Robert Thirsk

Robert Thirsk on his fears and why space is a moneymaker, part of our series in conversation with the Canadians who were once in space, or soon will be
Z2 suit. NASA.

Is this the spacesuit of the future?

If we’re going to send humans to Mars, we’re going to need a new spacesuit. And that requires decades of inventing and testing—plus danger and hope.