October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
..., laying geophones for active seismic sensing, collecting interesting rocks and acquiring regolith samples. With such expeditions, the Moon’s expanses will be opened up as we see sights we have only imagined. A concept to explore dark lunar craters...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
... the end of the Apollo programme, astronauts have learned to live in space, and prepare for future interplanetary expeditions, in the shadow of the Earth. To declare space and celestial bodies as the common heritage of humankind is to recognise and...
January 2023
Evolving human space culture – reflections on humanity’s cultural potential in space
... drive to survive and thrive as we establish new and unique civilizations in our space settlements and explorations. The Expedition 68 crew aboard the ISS included astronauts from the US, Russia, Italy and Japan. A symbolic key, representing...
25 March 2019
Moon isolation experiment begins in Moscow
... real lunar-Earth situations and generally be delayed by five minutes in each direction. To keep supplies topped up on this expedition, a space freighter will deliver food and consumables to the orbital lunar station every 30 days. Then, exactly...
03 April 2020
Newly discovered organisms in ancient solid rock inspire new search for life
... Tokyo during the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP). The expedition, which anchored above three locations along the route across the...core samples from 125 metres below the seafloor. The expedition was in 2010 and it has taken the researchers ...
18 October 2019
First all-female spacewalk is underway!
...Dyson, a NASA astronaut who completed three spacewalks as part of the Expedition 24 crew on the ISS in 2010, said: “This is significant...Six people are serving on the space station's current Expedition 61: Koch, Meir, and fellow NASA astronaut Andrew ...
