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...
25 March 2019
Moon isolation experiment begins in Moscow
... to complete such a rigorous mission. “Only biomedical research of this nature will make future journeys to other celestial bodies possible. Six of these experiments have been developed in Germany,” says Christian Rogon, SIRIUS-19 Project Manager...
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 ...
April 2019
Wake-up call for debris creation in geostationary orbit
... equation in that additional terms to account for a non-spherical Earth and the gravitational effect of other celestial bodies are required to simulate thousands of orbiting objects. Consequently, randomising or ‘stochastic’ models are used to give...
February 2019
Reflections on the future human condition
... our terrestrial condition, offering us a global vision of our own planet within the universe? Earth is not an anonymous celestial body among thousands, millions and billions of others; it is not a cradle that we could potentially or must necessarily...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... a fine line in avoiding Article II of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 (OST), which banned the appropriation of ‘celestial bodies’. It is true that Article IV of the OST states that governments are responsible for the oversight of non-governmental ...
