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July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
...experience on Earth, but which could be suitable, useful and also beautiful, for a new generation of people who will inhabit other planets. But this vision is not widely shared by today’s space scientific community.... becoming a mediator between science and beauty The challenge is to transform extreme environmental conditions from a limiting factor to an opportunity and, for example, to try to design environments and objects that take advantage of ...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... has no steering wheel, no brakes and no sails. So, let’s look at protecting our planet Earth from the dangers originating in space and suggest some of the international legal groundwork that will help us provide this protection... Assembly of the Council of Europe, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. An impact on Earth could become the trigger for a global ecological crisis or even military conflict Since asteroids and ...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... possibly extend to the Moon as US-Russian-Chinese relations sour. For many, ‘space’ conjures majestic images of the planets, stars and nebulae, the Apollo Moon landings, Martian rovers, or guitar-wielding ...and not simply recounting the partisan politics of a legislature that factors space into policy-making. A space policy of any kind is political. Recognising the impacts of space on people, societies and polities, good and bad, is political...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
...main objective of the Institute has been to perform advanced research aimed at studying the impact of extreme space environment factors on humans and other bio-objects. Such studies help to substantiate ways of preventing ...simulating the operation of a heavy interplanetary spacecraft and the actions of cosmonauts on the surface of a planet. Short- and long-term isolation experiments were performed to test promising life support systems, to assess ...
September 2025
Why the global space sector needs urgent regulation
...the ability of governments and regulators to keep up. In this thought-provoking opinion piece for ROOM Space Journal, former UK Science Minister and Member of the British Parliament George Freeman argues for a bold,... recognises the unique role that space can play in creating a more sustainable future on Earth and the need for the space industry to consider environmental and sustainability impacts beyond our planet. The history of human innovation...
October 2025
Europe’s unified vision for space governance and growth
... competitiveness, enhance security and embed sustainability at the core of space operations. Against this backdrop, the Forum provided ROOM Space Journal with a firsthand insight into how Europe plans to redefine its... act as a watershed moment for Europe’s ambitions. ESA’s five strategic goals – protecting the planet, exploring and discovering, strengthening autonomy and resilience, boosting competitiveness and inspiring Europe – will guide...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
...model building. It is therefore no great surprise that Lego has embarked on its own small space programme. Entering space Space is increasingly an integral part of our culture… It is therefore no great surprise that ... writer, and a Commissioning Editor for ROOM Space Journal. He has 40 years of experience as a satellite communications engineer and consultant to the space industry, space insurance and space education sectors. He is the author of ...
August 2019
The next us – our evolution in deep space
... both physiological and psychological. A behavioural paradigm shift is developing which will transform humanity from Earth-dwellers to deep space explorers. The Earth is a familiar environment: it is our home, our nurturing foundation and the source of ... challenge is to adjust to the new working environment, but pushing further and further from our home planet to work, explore and develop, we must train our minds and bodies to survive on less and...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... ‘burning up’ on re-entry. However, not all space junk burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere. The Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) produced a set of Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines which led to satellite operators initiating ...all have a part to play. There is a huge inventory of man-made objects orbiting the planet, many of which have great potential for generating an archaeological typology of spaceflight from the actual ...
