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Published online 26 January 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050124-8

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Antigravity has feet of clay

Space agency report is a downer for gravity-control researchers.

Could astronauts take a leaf out of H. G. Wells's book The First Men in the Moon, and use spacecraft propelled by antigravity devices? Some see the idea as science fiction, but major space agencies take it seriously.

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