He's smart but his birds are sloppy: Japan picks an astronaut

Life in a box: The perilous psychology of isolation and confinement

Star crazy: Can space blow your mind?

You go first: The alarming prospect of life without gravity

Unstowed: Escaping gravity on board NASA's C-9

Throwing up and down: The astronaut's secret misery

The cadaver in the space capsule: NASA visits the crash test lab

One furry step for mankind: The strange careers of Ham and Enos

Next gas: 200,000 miles: Planning a moon expedition is tough, but not as tough as planning a simulated one

Houston, we have a fungus: Space hygiene and the men who stopped bathing for science

The horizontal stuff: What if you never got out of bed?

The three-dolphin club: Mating without gravity

Withering heights: Bailing out from space

Separation anxiety: The continuing saga of zero-gravity elimination

Discomfort food: When veterinarians make dinner, and other tales of woe from aerospace test kitchens

Eating your pants: Is Mars worth it?