April 2025
Lego’s tribute to NASA’s SLS and Artemis
... in this hubbub of rocketry? Preparing for a return of astronauts to the Moon and, perhaps in the longer term, a crewed mission to Mars. The NASA programme dedicated to this task is called Artemis, after Apollo’s twin sister in Greek mythology, and...
April 2020
Evolutionary lessons for an interplanetary future
...from extinction, or will it—in an ironic twist—lead to new human species? Scientists at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, preparing for a hypothetical manned mission to Mars, must don spacesuit simulators any time they leave the habitat where...
01 October 2019
Life on Mars: what to know before we go
With a potential manned mission to Mars on the horizon again – at least in terms of space industry...a treatise on how to build rockets and spacecraft to transport astronauts to Mars or life support systems to help them survive once they get there, you...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... would clearly be of immense value Firstly, we have a pretty good idea by now what an initial astronaut exploration mission to Mars would look like. Our view is informed, among others, by the high-fidelity simulations conducted in remote locations...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...showing how humans could explore space, from a wheel-shaped station in orbit to a fleet of moonships, and later a mission to Mars. There can be no doubt that they succeeded spectacularly in showing a US public, whose lives had been dominated by Korea...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... motivation’ that Musk was talking about. System architecture for SpaceX crewed missions to Mars and back. Bottom: Basic technical parameters for SpaceX Mars craft that would carry crew on interplanetary flights. Trying to kickstart the hare...
