February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... was offered by Walter Dornberger in V2: Der Schuss ins Weltall [The Shot into Space] (Bechtle, 1952). To advocates of human spaceflight, the goal was to place a spacecraft into orbit around the Earth or to send it to the Moon or Mars. Perhaps...
January 2023
The effects of spaceflight on the female body
... requires solving a number of complex problems in various fields of science and technology, including medical support. Human spaceflight is associated with the restructuring of a whole range of processes in the body’s physiological systems which have...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... alone landing them on the Moon, but 10 years on, and with the cost of reusable rocketry falling, commercial human spaceflight is poised to lift off. And, arguably, there’s a new lunar race on, as China, the United States and a clutch...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... on the United Nations’ space roster. Today the UN space family numbers over 100. Let human spaceflight come to embrace all of humanity – in all its diversity of poets and teachers as well as engineers, scientists and pilots – as true ambassadors...
04 October 2017
First ever Stratollite launch from Spaceport Tucson
...just limiting its Stratollite to commercial purposes but is also in the market to offer human spaceflight. Currently under development, its Voyager human spaceflight experience is aiming to launch in the near future and once operational it will offer...
10 July 2019
Virgin Galactic to become the first publicly traded commercial human spaceflight company
... organisation, The Spaceship Company, has taken a huge step towards becoming the very first publicly listed human spaceflight company and therefore available to equity investors. This achievement is being made possible by joining forces with a New...
