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...
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...
12 July 2019
NASA reassigns top leaders in Moon 2024 programme
..., NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has informed staff that key figures, including the widely respected director of human spaceflight Bill Gerstenmaier, will be replaced as part of a major shake-up at the agency. The move, which has come as a shock...
June 2021
Autonomous robots in space
...conducted at the University of Surrey, UK. Space science and human spaceflight were very much at the origin of the global space ... of space technologies. Today, the inherent challenges for humans in the space environment provide at least some of the...
September 2026
Pregnancy among the stars - the biology of birth beyond Earth
...belonged firmly to the realm of science fiction. Today it is becoming a legitimate subject of scientific investigation. As human spaceflight moves beyond short-duration missions towards permanent settlements on the Moon, commercial space stations and...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
...has continued to make tremendous progress in 2020, successfully delivering historic missions to Mars and the first commercial human spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS). This year could be even better, suggests Josephine Millward. The...
