The race to return humans to the moon and eventually send astronauts to Mars has forced scientists to confront a difficult reality. Space is dangerous, isolated and unforgiving. When a medical ...

For decades, space agencies have relied on Earth-based simulations to understand what long periods of isolation might do to astronauts before they ever leave the ground. Nasa is now preparing for one ...

Growing up in the USA in the 1960s I was captivated by the space programme as we raced the Soviet Union to the Moon. Most of my generation can tell you where they were when Neil Armstrong and Buzz ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Astronaut Simulator Drifting in the silence of space, you awaken aboard a damaged orbital station. Systems are failing, oxygen is running low, and every ...