Uppsala Company AAC Microtec will contribute his expertise on the miniaturization of electronics

Tomorrow's JAS 39 Gripen aircraft will be easier and smarter. With the help of a new American standard is the little Uppsala Company AAC Microtec develops technologies to shrink the electronics in the Gripen.

Will people one day land on Mars?

At their workplace, there is no air to breathe, no solid ground under their feet and that they are an extraterrestrial radiation - Astronauts working in an extremely hostile environment. The space shuttle "Endeavor" was now an experiment in Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel to the International Space Station ISS. Using special sensors, the scientists want to cosmic radiation measured by the effect on the astronauts. The sensors are in the European Columbus module on the ISS installed - the work of the laboratory space driver.

Shoe print of Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on the moon

On space missions is discussed, comes the inevitable argument that manned space travel is too expensive. For an average person, the cost of a major research project or a manned space mission enormous. Compared with the budget of large countries and organizations, and compared with what is spent for other things, the costs of space science and almost negligible. With the money, for instance, the NBC television for the broadcasting rights of the Olympic Games in 2008 has paid, if you had the complete Large Hadron Collider be able to finance. With the tax money that year, only in Germany is wasted; it could be a manned flight to Mars afford, which is about 30 billion euros. Germany could therefore actually a separate, manned mission to Mars, without a lot of money to have to rise - you should only use existing meaningful.