October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... decades and more. Research involves the interaction of crew members with each other and with technical equipment. ... her develop training activities for commercial and analogue crews with an emphasis on underwater operations and sustainably-designed...
April 2026
Robotics is the future of space labour
...higher rate with greater payload capacities than ever, the human crews cannot keep up. There simply aren’t enough astronaut hours ... ground control infrastructures. Even small increases in crew capacity for an in-space habitat drastically multiply the...
28 February 2017
The future is here: Elon Musk announces commercial flights to the Moon
...Elon Musk announced plans to launch a commercial flight carrying two crew members to the Moon in 2018. The press conference came ... without whom this would not be possible. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, which provided most of the funding for Dragon 2...
12 October 2018
Soyuz investigation focuses on second stage failure
... not yet clear what impact the abort might have on upcoming crewed flights to the International Space Station (ISS). A Progress supply ship...Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov confirmed no further crewed missions would take place "until we believe that...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
... to Mars; if you extrapolate these rates to a four-crew, three-year mission, just the resupply mass itself accumulates ...pointed out but the side-effects would most likely intoxicate crew members leading to decreased performance or, in the worst-case ...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... Boeing’s Starliner and SpaceX’s Dragon - designed to carry crew to low Earth orbit (LEO). But these commercial enterprises...of propellant (hydrogen and oxygen) to fuel a large crewed spacecraft to Mars. Former United Launch Alliance chief scientist ...
