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...
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 ...
January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
... becomes an even bigger issue. Rigorous housekeeping to ensure crews remain safe and healthy on future deep space missions will ... decent and landing manoeuvre or to reduce volume so that the crew does not have to be surrounded by their trash on a long...
