February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
...and food rations. The rations should be adequate and balanced in terms of essential nutrients to ensure preservation of the crew members’ health and performance under exposure to high levels of ionising radiation and other unfavourable factors during...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... percent of its waste, and it is the only outpost where crews of different nationalities and ethnicities work together in harmony for a common...human space exploration programmes. The launch of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship on 30 May 2020 showed that ...
November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
...use the mass that is already on board to protect the crew of long-distance missions to Mars. Supplies, equipment and launch...Engineers are working on several ways to protect future space crews or colonists from very high energy galactic radiation. One ...
22 November 2019
NASA and Boeing celebrate roll out of Starliner despite dispute over costs
... to the International Space Station (ISS), Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule has started preparations for its first unpiloted test flight... other systems, which has caused delays to their first crew launches by several years. Something that has not gone...
February 2021
The Space Monuments Men
... to get him onboard to be my cheerleader to build the crew monument, Apollo 13, at the Johnson Space Center. Where history ...000 to build that incredible monument and we plan to unveil the crew of Apollo 13 at the Johnson Space Center in early 2021. ...
12 May 2016
Boeing CST-100 Flight Postponed Until 2018
...Boeing had indicated it planned to carry out that initial crewed flight before the end of 2017, although she made no...“aspiration” for Boeing to be the first U.S. company to fly a crewed spacecraft to the ISS, in part because the company is the prime ...
