February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
... a porous tube watering system embedded in a root module containing arcillite and a slow-release fertiliser. To ease the crew’s horticultural activities and to ensure that plants are growing in an optimal environment, the crop cultural cycle needs...
November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
...Station III where it will be installed and undergo 12 months of operations. Although a Neumayer Station III over-wintering crew member will operate the facility, significant emphasis will also be placed on remote monitoring and operations. A detailed...
October 2017
Third quarter phenomenon - the psychology of time in space
... prolonged missions into space, not considering psychological changes that could occur would be an oversight Consider a small crew of five or six people living and working together in a capsule travelling to Mars, millions of miles into the darkness...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... descent. She blasted off for an eight-day visit to the International Space Station as part of the Expedition 14 crew on Soyuz TMA-9. Adopting a functionalist approach would remove the uncertainty of trying to establish whether a craft has crossed...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... km with an inclination of 51.6 degrees compared to the CSS’s planned 42-43 degrees, 300-350 km orbit. All visiting cargo and crew vehicles have also to be launched into this orbit and it is likely that China’s CZ-5B launcher, reserved for lifting...
August 2021
Robotic systems for psychological support
...and high performance and are based on providing the crew with information covering various aspects: emotional, individual-...IBMP) RAS, and a space journalist. She served as a crew member of the international space projects Mars-160 and SIRIUS-19 and...
