October 2025
What future for UK human spaceflight?
... walk on the Moon. About the Author Nick Spall is a London-based space and aviation writer specialising in human spaceflight. He has participated in ESA-led parabolic flight campaigns and undertaken centrifuge training in the UK and USA...
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...
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 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...
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...
