Mars: Planet of the Apes
	Laika preceded the first manned spaceflight; why can't macaques preceed the first manned flight to Mars? According to Russian scientists, they can and they will. The first living being to the Martian system will most likely be a monkey, not a man. The reason is very simple and easy to guess; radiation poses too great of a risk for human astronauts to be sent into long space missions, such as a manned mission to the Red Planet. &qu ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2008, 10:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Lynx Mark I, the Future of Commercial Spaceflight
	There are possibly thousands of commercial air flights being carried out every day on Earth, however not even one commercial spaceflight. This is merely because there is no commercial spacecraft available at this moment capable of conducting more than one flight into space each day. To be more accurate, even the spacecrafts used by state space agencies require more than a month of preparation to execute a single launch into space. [ADMA ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 09:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Keeps an Airplane From Flying in Outerspace?
	Have you ever wondered why airplanes can't be used for spaceflight? Escaping the Earth's gravity is somehow tricky even with the current technology and keeps most of us stranded on the surface. Even NASA has sometimes problems getting its shuttle into space. The first attempt to put a man into space was not made with the help of an airplane, but with a rocket. This is mainly because of the Earth's gravity. Any o ... [read more >>]
	26 November 2007, 06:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia