March 2018
Zero gravity and the human heart
... anteroposterior diameter meaning the intercostal spaces become wider and the alveolar surface expands. Members of the Expedition 27 ISS crew mark the 50th anniversary of manned spaceflight on 12 April 2011 (Yuri’s Night). Most of the crew...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... such as ‘Perfect Day’ dairy reactors, the greenhouses can scale to feed the Omaha Crater settlement and expeditions across the planet Other Omaha Crater industries can also scale, to stockpile propellant and other gases...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
... should be overcome and placed under proper international control. NASA’s Resource Prospector aims to be the first mining expedition on another world. Space taxes As the emphasis slowly changes from space exploration to space exploitation, legal...
June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
... Columbus years of intense lobbying and negotiations before he could finally secure the funding for his first expedition into the unknown. Nowadays, it is often used as an example of the noble desire to explore that is an essential part of the...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... gravitational deflection of light that was first demonstrated by Sir Arthur Eddington in the famous 1919 solar eclipse expedition that provided the first observational confirmation of Einstein’s theory of gravity. The alignment needed to see this...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... understand why it shut down when it did While InSight is clearly the main attraction of this mission, the expedition to Mars is also serving another purpose - a technology demonstration of two mini-spacecraft called MarCO A and MarCO B, or just...
