July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... 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...
November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
... 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...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... 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...
November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... 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...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... Accountability Office (GAO) recently criticised NASA for continuing a dual hatting approach to operations and safety in its human spaceflight ESD (Exploration Systems and Development) programme which will transport crews to the Moon and beyond. Dual...
March 2016
Time for European visionary goals
... marked the 55th anniversary of the first human spaceflight into Earth orbit. Those formative decades in...to new levels. Yuri Gagarin - the 55th anniversary of his historic spaceflight was celebrated on 12 April They looked into the future, well beyond...
