... 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...
... 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...
... Antarctic station. The EDEN ISS consortium (Figure 1) is comprised of leading European experts (in addition to Canada) in the domain of human spaceflight and CEA. A partner from the USA also recently joined the consortium. The EDEN ISS scientific...
... in low Earth orbit (LEO). The International Space Station (ISS) programme remains the flagship programme for human spaceflight and international collaboration, although its longer term future remains uncertain. Support has grown by most partners...
... that NASA work with Boeing on a corrective action plan. After 2016, with a new US administration in place, NASA’s human spaceflight plans received a high-profile upgrade while, at the same time, more troubling aspects of the financial oversight...
... 1957. The effects of low, or zero gravity, were nevertheless not studied much before the first human spaceflights. As human spaceflights developed with the exploration ambitions of different nations, research on the effects of exposure to space and...