24 September 2025
Cybersecurity, cosmic weather and Europa’s secrets
... ministers later this year. The issue also includes Nick Spall’s assessment of the UK’s shifting role in human spaceflight, James Woodburn’s survey of the transformation of satellite technology, and Rico Behlke’s look at the revolution promised...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... at NASA Langley Research Center where she evaluates capabilities and system maturation for integration into human spaceflight exploration architectures. She has 10 years of experience in designing and fabricating satellite and rocket instrumentation...
May 2018
Woman on the Moon
... and secondary school children, students and family workshops. These dramatic and exciting plans, and other human spaceflight missions, are of huge interest to children and non-specialists. Participants are invited to create their own vision...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... influential, and unofficial leader, of these enthusiasts was Sergei Korolev. In the early 1960s this synergy between human spaceflight and military technologies began to unravel. Korolev had championed the use of liquid oxygen along with refined...
April 2026
Robotics is the future of space labour
... and add more capabilities on short timelines, adding to the need for more labour in orbit. The economics of human spaceflight, however, is still prohibitive, the health risks relatively unknown and the danger unprecedented. As a result, orbital...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
...likely because the technologies in question were developed for government needs and not in response to market demand. In human spaceflight, this type of thinking was behind the founding of SpaceX, started by Elon Musk with an initial goal of reducing...
