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...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
...a spacecraft used for interplanetary space travel means inevitably that there would need to be fresh consideration of any crew code of conduct, even if the basic principles of liability remain. Establishing the need for a revivified regulatory regime...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... 1960s, US Mercury astronauts travelled alone from their crew-quarters at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ...DC. As the new Astrovan II was built specifically as a crew transfer vehicle for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, it incorporates Boeing...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... go to Mars, we will need to stay in space without crew rotations, without resupply and without the ability to return to Earth ...can be fixed and what repair equipment is needed. Crews today are experimenting with more autonomous operations for the ...
