November 2018
Being human in space
...and upgrading our existence on Earth and in the universe. Understanding the human condition is essential for future long-distance space travel. We are human and humans seem to have built-in flaws. In various isolation experiments, where a small group...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... the province of dreamers and, traditionally, those who wrote about it were science fiction authors. Today, however, long distance space travel has entered the realm of the engineer. Simon ‘Pete’ Worden describes propulsion system requirements for...
June 2022
Pandemic parallels
... support systems will not protect people from the very real mental health challenges faced by long-distance space travellers. The space industry should study success rates of initiatives set up to counter the pandemic’s impact and incorporate them...
18 July 2017
Overcoming the challenges of long term space travel
... amounts of rocks and debris hurtling through the void. As the relevant rules of physics are vastly different, space travel, particularly long distance space travel, will be very different to anything else we have encountered previously.
