20 December 2021
China envisions crewed moon missions by 2030
...be “entirely possible” by 2030, as long as technological research for crewed moon landings continues, and “as long as the country is determined”,...said back in February is for any "crewed lunar landing or crewed Mars landing missions" the country may ...
06 October 2021
Russian crew arrives at ISS to film first movie in orbit
...12-day mission to make the first movie in orbit. The Russian crew is set to beat a Hollywood project that was announced last year...," Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky tweeted from the ISS. The crew travelled in a Soyuz MS-19 spaceship to film scenes for...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... Flyer/Walkers to the surface, perhaps to multiple sites. While in the Spider Walker configuration, which provides the crew the ability to conduct scientific operations with minimal geologic disturbance in the milli-gravity of these ‘alien’ worlds...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
..., and extreme temperatures that can drop as low as 2.7 Kelvin. Enabling technologies focus on mission success and crew safety. Crewed missions in the vicinity of the Earth are short, and very expensive. Without a perceived imminent need, NASA...
August 2020
Interplanetary spaceflight and restorative justice
...of a robust conflict resolution system for long-duration interplanetary human spaceflight missions. Well-functioning relationships amongst crew members are vital for a successful mission – to the Moon, Mars or anywhere else. However, while pre-flight...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
...a generation? NASA is effectively committed to human flights to Mars. In 2010, President Obama announced that he expected NASA to send a crew to at least orbit the red planet by the mid 2030s, with landings occurring “in his lifetime”. At present the...
