February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
... environment, the crop cultural cycle needs to be fully monitored by a computer. Such a monitoring system was tested in 2018 in Antarctica. Using a partly automated system for growing crops will ensure that the crew benefits from the...
September 2023
Space sustainability and the global commons
... concept is set out through international agreements for the high seas and the deep sea bed, Antarctica, the atmosphere and outer space. The key principles are ‘freedom of use’ and ‘non-appropriation’. Of course...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... developed a prototype greenhouse, the EDEN ISS Mobile Test Facility (MTF), for the Moon and operated it in Antarctica at the German Neumeyer-III Research Station for several years. The MTF is returning to Germany this year...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... media today. I have, from there, revisited historic moments, such as the invention of Concorde and the exploration of Antarctica, as a way of understanding technological ventures such as Virgin Hyperloop and Virgin Galactic. I have also endeavoured...
October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
... be gathered from challenging environments on Earth, from submariners, miners and humans who live in the extreme conditions of Antarctica, but these should not be mistaken for actual space conditions. Vision factors in altered gravity Compared with...
April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
... knowledge of the danger and potential consequences. If someone has a plan to send one hundred people to live stranded in Antarctica, and the plan notes that the Antarcticans might develop a culture that sees morality pertaining to disabled...
