October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
.... Their paper, ‘Archaeology of the International Space Station (ISS)’, investigates the first “mini-society off-world” in low Earth orbit, documenting human adaptation to a new and lasting environment for the past two decades and more. Research...
May 2024
Beyond Earth’s magnetic field
... but constitute a priority in the exploration of outer space by Russian scientists. Planning for space missions beyond low Earth orbit determines the need for further careful investigation of physiological effects of the reduced magnetic field on all...
November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
... now under development in different parts of the world for humans to move beyond Earth and low Earth orbit to explore and live in space, on the Moon, on Mars or in orbiting colonies. But leaving home is never easy, and space travellers moving out...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... life extension driving much of this revenue. This new market will be realised, first in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) and then medium and low Earth orbit (LEO), through logistics. Those space-based ‘cars’, forever on the road, that have...
June 2018
We live on a planet!
...Apollo 8 were the first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit, see Earth as a whole planet, and witness an Earthrise. ... we do of space is how we rediscover ourselves here on Earth. The Earthrise image from the Moon was certainly one of the...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... mass of the rocket and the (effective) exhaust velocity out of the nozzle. A high delta-v is required to reach low Earth orbit (LEO) to remain in space. A number of non-rocket space launch methods have been proposed, but none has...
