November 2018
Creating the ‘Space for Art Foundation’
... have four art spacesuits, three of which have travelled to and from the International Space Station (ISS). From this diverse and creative international team, we’ve formed the Space for Art Foundation, and we are on a mission to unite heroic children...
May 2024
Beyond Earth’s magnetic field
The evolution of living organisms took place under the conditions of Earth’s magnetic field, and the International Space Station (ISS) is in low Earth orbit, where cosmonauts and astronauts are protected by Earth’s magnetosphere. However, the ...
May 2017
Recipe for success on flights to Mars
... early 1960s, though they did fly aboard Skylab III. Martha collects rocks. Today’s space food eaten aboard the International Space Station (ISS) shares more similarities with military Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), vacuum sealed plastic pouches...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
...ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has demonstrated centimetre-scale accuracy when docking with the International Space Station (ISS), while Sweden’s Prisma mission has demonstrated formation flying for brief periods, maintaining centimetre-level...
August 2016
Space for art
... place I had the privilege of witnessing from that awesome and surreal vantage point of the International Space Station (ISS). Inspirational artwork used by NASA in a series of posters designed to inspire future generations to think about living...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... been the creation of a productive, profitable and permanent human presence in space. Today, the only programme that approximates this purpose is the International Space Station (ISS), a wonderful example of a multi-national scientific and commercial...
