June 2022
Pandemic parallels
...training. Similarly, the idea of quarantine and isolation for protection against infection is one that is not new to human spaceflight. The early Apollo moon landers had to quarantine themselves before launch, to prevent infection ruining the mission...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... development, the Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin flights have finally delivered sub-orbital, non-governmental human spaceflight for recreational purposes. However, although the participants who flew on the first Blue Origin and Virgin...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
... duration or interplanetary missions will require a space traveller very different from the ones currently recruited for human spaceflight. In either case, some form of criminal code may not only be desirable, it may be critical to the success of the...
March 2026
Lessons learned on the way to space
... just after SpaceShipOne won the Ansari X-Prize. The amendment created the regulatory framework for commercial human spaceflight. Again, the first words state its purpose: “to promote the development of the emerging commercial...
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
... three of these: nutrition, medical needs and crew psychology. NASA has identified five major hazards for human spaceflight. Nutrition The nutritional balance of food supplied for space missions must be perfectly adapted for a crew to sustain...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... systems and capabilities toward the challenging goal of a crewed mission to Mars. In an early use of NASA’s next-generation human spaceflight vehicles, Orion and Space Launch System (SLS), our astronauts will travel to the redirected asteroid in the...
