September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... at University College London (UCL) where I learnt about the importance of geology in influencing the possibility of life forming on celestial bodies: from moons like our own giving planets stability and shielding them from asteroid collisions, and...
June 2014
The peaceful use of space
... Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, conventionally known as the Outer Space Treaty. The Treaty, adopted in 1967 by broad consensus in the UN General Assembly...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
..., in part, that ‘the activities of non-governmental entities in outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, shall require authorisation and continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty’. States typically respond...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...This can happen in a stationary orbit around a rotating celestial body or a Lagrange point. Geosynchronous equatorial or geostationary orbit ...on the Space Elevator. The planet, or other celestial body, with the base-anchor provides the rotation and ...
20 October 2016
Asgardia: The New Space Nation
... distinct is that it seeks habitation on a space station rather than an existing planet, asteroid or any other kind of celestial body. Thus, regardless of the technological challenges, the concept is legally sound and largely faultless. It does not...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
...Reduced gravity The consequences of prolonged microgravity on the human body - osteopenia and osteoporosis (the long-term loss of ... the human body. There have only been 12 humans who have travelled to the surface of another celestial body and those ...
