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May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
... Observatories - Hubble, Compton, Chandra and Spitzer – which gives him a fairly unique perspective on space science. ROOM’s US editor, Amanda Miller, delves into his engineering background and the key technologies of the...optical surfaces, so you have to cool them as much as possible. An artist’s concept depicting the Spitzer Space Telescope in space much as it would appear at the end of its mission on 30 January 2020, with a backdrop depicting...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...-writers under Wernher von Braun and Willy Ley, on a series of articles for Collier’s magazine, showing how humans could explore space, from a wheel-shaped station in orbit to a fleet of moonships, and later a mission...and super-shuttles (Gouache + digital). From ‘Futures: 50 Years in Space’ by David A Hardy & Patrick Moore, 2004 Throughout the 1950s, science fiction and other illustrators who had never even looked through a telescope produced...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... only thing that Earth can give you is advice. Original poster artwork for the seminal science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Three other films seem relevant in what they say about life... of what happens if an alien civilisation – the Thermians – misinterprets a fictional human TV series as ‘historical documents’. Then there’s Mars Attacks (1996) as the antidote to over-the-top space war films that, in my view, foolishly assume we could beat...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
..., yes, settlers too, are currently to be found in classrooms around the world. And as our world embraces space science and space exploration on a whole new level, it is imperative that we address the question: “How will we thrive, ...community. Holly is on the advisory boards for global organisations such as Space Vault, Finsophy, and STEM for Women magazine. She also sits on the Space Economy Task Force in Austin, Texas. Jeff Smith is a Material ...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
...Union’s leading institution on the problems of Space Biology and Medicine on the initiative of the Designer General, Sergei Korolev and the President of the Academy of Sciences, Mstislav Keldysh, with the active involvement ..., IBMP experts - in collaboration with related institutions and organisations of the Russian Space Agency and the Academy of Sciences - have scientifically substantiated, developed and put into practice a system of spaceflight...
September 2023
How microorganisms survive space travel
... space science, as it impacts not only crew survival on long-term space missions, but also the implications of contamination – from space to Earth or from Earth to space. Here, the authors describe a number of space-based...higher plants and the dormant forms of organisms on board the Russian segment of the International Space Station // Cosmonautics and rocket science. 2007. Vol. 49. Issue 4. pp. 54-63. 2. Alekseev V.R., Sychev V.N., Novikova N.D. ...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...enough to scale up the elevator, e.g., to 1000 mt payload. Unfortunately, very little activity of the Space Elevator community is directed to tether maintenance or growth, although, e.g., the automated replacement of railroad tracks..., vol. 152, p. 123–126, 2018. 22 J. Pearson and E. Levin, “Lunar Space Elevator Design in Lunar Space Elevators for Cislunar Space Development,” Star Inc., 2005. 23 M. Lades, “Mars Lift Update,” in IAC18, Proceedings,...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
...from scientific curiosity to commercially-recognised threat. Historically, awareness of space hazards was limited to countries with operational space science missions, but the growing volume and variety of infrastructure interconnections ...has changed the status of space weather among the space community, while the magnitude...
December 2018
Asgardia at Escape Velocity 2018
...over 300 hours of science and science fiction-themed programmes. This year the event featured more museum gallery items, exhibitors, discussion panels and interactive activities than previously, including ROOM magazine as a media ... Velocity, as the year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most iconic works of science fiction, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Space Station V was prominent part of the 2001 story and provided a unique view into life on...
