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...
January 2018
Space nation's first orbiting satellite
...’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as a part of the OA-8 Antares-Cygnus mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and deployed after Cygnus completed its mission at the ISS and was placed into a higher orbit. Speaking from the launch site...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
... 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 year 2020 set a record for...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... understanding of the universe? In a year’s time the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) is scheduled to fly aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station (ISS). The goal of ACES, put simply, is to build a better clock - but...
October 2020
Microgravity and its effects on the human brain
...minute flight by Yuri Gagarin almost 60 years ago routine space missions are getting longer in duration, with flights of up to six months or more on the International Space Station (ISS) now typical. Future missions will undoubtedly last even longer...
