February 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means. The Apollo Moon landings brought back 842 pounds of lunar material under strict NASA control NASA claims that...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
...will need to survive on the surface with little protection The Apollo astronauts, the only humans so far to travel outside of LEO,... received from about 1.6 mSv to 5.8 mSv - with Apollo 14 receiving 11.4 mSv from solar storms which occur when the...
November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
...’t normally harmful to us. A computer-generated visualisation of the Apollo 8 spacecraft in orbit around the Moon, with Earth rising...over the horizon. The thin metal shell of the Apollo capsules protected the astronauts from most types of radiation on...
March 2018
Zero gravity and the human heart
...on Earth, the slow heart rate on the ECG of Apollo 8 astronaut, Bill Anders, would have suggested vagotonia. Laboratory ... Nicogossian AE. In-flight lower limb volume measurement. In: The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Medical Report (NASA SP-411). Edited ...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... important answers. So, let’s start with this: what’s the most realistic portrayal of life in space in popular cinema? Apollo 13 film promotional poster. Realism candidates Human nature won’t change in space, so the idea of an Empire that becomes...
16 July 2018
Piercing the Horizon: the story of Visionary NASA Chief Tom Paine
... a truce”, offering the gesture of leaving a personal memento of JFK (a tie-clip) on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission. Teddy was not cooperative and Paine soon realised that “the Kennedys had no real interest...
