22 June 2020
Virgin Galactic announces an agreement with NASA for private orbital spaceflight to the ISS
... aerospace company, announced today the signing of a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Johnson Space Center to encourage commercial participation in orbital human spaceflight to the International Space Station (“ISS”) while enabling the development...
May 2022
Multinational training for interplanetary spaceflight crews
...was introduced into training practice, which involved a year in a foreign space centre (in Houston, USA, and Star City, Russia) as an...as the crew doctor of the STS-63 expedition at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Since 1998, he has been a member ...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... nerve sheath. Several ISS astronauts have noted a sudden drop in visual ability. The chief scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center says of this issue: “This is one that we don’t yet have a handle on and it could be a show-stopper.” Volunteers...
November 2016
Emergency dental treatment on way to Mars
...Gibson for his valuable comments. 2 NASA TM-2012-217368, Review of Spaceflight Dental Emergencies, A. Menon, NASA / Johnson Space Center Bioastronautics Contract, 2012. 3 See paper: Häuplik-Meusburger, Meusburger and Lotzmann, Dental Treatment during...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... universe. About the author Louise Riofrio is educated in physics and astronomy, and worked as a scientist at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. While studying the Moon, she performed experiments with priceless Apollo lunar samples. In her spare...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... and on to Mars. About the author Michael Ciancone is an engineer with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas. He currently serves as the NASA Lead for Safety and Mission Assurance...
