...in space, citing it as a first step towards the colonisation of Mars. Similarly, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin was the first to succeed ...to begin to finance larger and more expansive trade missions across the world, eventually culminating in an empire that...
... producing spores for an extended period of time when they were not needed. More than just biology On a mission to Mars, astronauts will experience reduced gravity and their spacecraft drastic external temperature fluctuations, low pressure and...
... study’s overall goal is to investigate crew selection, performance and cohesion; and how to apply those lessons to a crewed mission to Mars. Our mission, ran for eight months up to June 2015. During this time, we lived in a dome on the side of the...
...turned their attention to a second key biological problem that needed to be managed for humanity to be successful in its missions to Mars and beyond: how to mitigate the threat from microbial species that demonstrate increased pathogenicity and other...
... research groups, research laboratories and startups. NASA JPL’s Mars Cube One (MarCO) mission consist of a pair of 6U CubeSats that were launched alongside NASA’s InSight mission to Mars in May 2018. The CubeSats were dropped off on an Earth...
... micro- or zero gravity. But we should not forget that the psychology of being on a long-term mission is of vital important to the psyche. Missions to Mars, for example, will only be possible every two years with journeys taking up to seven months...