Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 04/05/2012

Russia is planning to become a space exploration superpower once again, and we bring a couple of infographics from Ria Novosti that shows who are the ideal candidates to become the new cosmonauts, and what they will face, in terms of health. From Space.com comes a tribute to the 1st American in orbit, John Glenn, and designer Guillermo Munro takes us trough the scientific investigation during the 520 day stay, simulating a possible manned space trip to Mars. To close our week of Daily Viz from Visual Loop, BBC puts in perspective how big is our solar system.

Who Wants to be a Cosmonaut?

Effect of Zero Gravity on Cosmonaut’s Body

1st American in Orbit: How NASA & John Glenn Made History

Scientific investigation during the 520 day stay, by Guillermo Munro

How big is our own solar system?

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The Corporate Agency

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This story written by Tiago Veloso

Tiago Veloso works as an Independent Content Curator and Marketing/Branding Consultant, with a confessed addiction for everything web 2.0, besides design, photography, arts and green politics, with which he fills his Twitter stream (@TSSVeloso). He lives in Brazil, and started the Visual Loop project as a way of collecting and sharing the immensity of infographics and other forms of data-visualization spread throughout the internet.