July 2014
Why become a cosmonaut? To preserve knowledge
... important as the technical side. From the very beginning, human spaceflight was made possible not only because of extraordinary scientific breakthroughs, but also because the human spirit was driving the desire to expand the boundaries of knowledge...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... can, for another decade, serve as a base for observing Earth and to gain experience for long-duration human spaceflight. Its advantages are that it is easily accessible and it offers the possibility for a rapid return to Earth. Beyond...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
...will always be remembered as the most historic human spaceflight of all time and, as the world ...impulse and the evolutionary step-forward that his moonwalk and spaceflight achievement represented for history. Neil Armstrong speaks at the Apollo...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... seems no other choice except for joining the US deep-space exploration programme, which almost means relinquishing human spaceflight activities in LEO. Cooperation with CSS, however, would open a new door for Europe to continue its presence...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... launchers is Soyuz - the ‘modified missile’ that launched the first satellite in 1957. The situation is little better in human spaceflight, the only operational transport systems being the 1960s Soyuz and the Chinese variant of it. The American...
November 2016
Emergency dental treatment on way to Mars
... to ensure the best possible health status of each crew member at the time of launch. So far in the history of human spaceflight the occurrence of dental injuries has been minimal. During the US Apollo and Skylab programmes, no dental problems...
