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cmtoo 28-Jun-19, 12:05	All Things Astronomy Ground control to Major Glum: Aussie tool tackles black dog on trip to red planet It’s going to get lonesome on the long trip to Mars. Slowly the view of Earth out the porthole will recede, first to the size of a blue marble, then a tiny pinprick on the black fabric of space. And then it’ll be gone. “On a space station, you can always look out the window and see Earth,” says Australian astronaut Dr Andy Thomas. “On a mission to Mars, they will be in bright blinding sunlight the whole time, and there will be no planet to see. “They won’t have a sense of being home.” NASA plans to make a round trip to Mars by 2033. And if a spaceman (or spacewoman) gets depressed, how do you help? To find out, NASA is funding a team of researchers to design a mental health help program for depression, anxiety and stress. One that can be delivered in deep space. And after a worldwide search, the team have settled on using a tool developed right here in Australia. One you can use on your phone right now. It’s called myCompass, and it’s been developed by the Black Dog Institute in Sydney. The free website delivers cognitive behavioural therapy, an evidence-based psychological treatment for stress, anxiety and mild depression. From The Age
lord_shiva 19-Aug-19, 16:39	Light Delay Imagine carrying on a conversation with someone outbound. The pauses between people will grow longer and longer, stretching into tens of minutes. Whenever Mars is opposite the sun we'll have to bounce signals off satellites a quarter of the way around the sun from us, stretching out communication even longer (a bit). Fun!
cmtoo 20-Sep-19, 13:20	Australia to sign MOU with NASA for moon mission by 2024 US President Donald Trump has won Australian support for his goal of returning astronauts to the moon by 2024 in a deal to be struck with Prime Minister Scott Morrison within days. Mr Morrison will visit the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Sunday to support a memorandum of understanding the vast US organisation will sign with the Australian Space Agency. The agreement will transfer Australian science and technology to Mr Trump's controversial plan for astronauts to return to the moon, just as it faces doubts over his ambitious deadline. White House officials said the goal of the agreement was to return to the moon by 2024 and revive the cooperation seen decades ago when scientists at Australian tracking stations helped the Apollo lunar missions. "It's been an incredibly cooperative relationship going back to the Apollo program into the moon landing," a White House official said in a briefing on Mr Morrison's visit to Washington DC. "And what we're trying to do in this visit is to expand that longstanding cooperation into the next frontiers – the moon and Mars. From The Age

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