November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
...already on board to protect the crew of long-distance missions to Mars. Supplies, equipment and launch and re-entry seats, ...Orion capsule. The vest is due to be tested on the Orion mission scheduled to orbit the Moon in late 2018. It will be attached ...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
...ethnicity and economic background. Part of the STEAMSPACE mission is to break down those barriers that have prevented...As the possibilities for space tourism, deep space human missions, lunar, Mars and other off-world settlements become less of a dream...
19 March 2019
New data from InSight shows a contrasting Mars
... 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in Houston, Texas this week, scientists working on NASA’s InSight mission reveal Mars’s interior is not only proving to be somewhat quiet, so far, but that its surface is plagued by ‘dustless devils...
February 2016
Shifting Space Perspectives: Artistic Research as Connective Research Area
...50C and +50C. As a simulation test-bed for preparing human missions to Mars and to the Moon, SHEE is self-sufficient for a two... for two weeks, as they would in a nominal short mission space scenario. SHEE is thus the first European space habitat ...
October 2017
Third quarter phenomenon - the psychology of time in space
...reactions to confinement over periods of 14, 105 and 510 days, designed to replicate the conditions of a mission to Mars. Although findings from the Mars simulations are less conclusive with regards to changes in mood and the TQP (Basner et al., 2014...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... eventually bring humans to other planetary bodies. Besides serving as a proving ground for future human and robotic missions to Mars, the lunar vicinity is a key area for the development of an affordable and sustainable space economy that would...