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...
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...
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...
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...
February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
...Head of the European Space Policy Observatory at Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) in Brussels. She also served as Director of Human Spaceflight of the European Space Agency from 2008 to 2011, and Director of the Observation of the Universe at ASI from...
