August 2016
Space for art
...from that awesome and surreal vantage point of the International Space Station (ISS). Inspirational artwork used by NASA in a series of posters designed to inspire future generations to think about living and working on other planets. That incredibly...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
...be the world’s politicians that will quickly point the finger at NASA, at ESA, at JAXA, at Roscosmos, at the Chinese ...Security, the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation and NASA, among others, to address the problem of solar storms....
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... from cosmic rays reaching the surface, based on cosmic-radiation measurements by the Mars radiation environment experiment on NASA’s Mars 2000 Odyssey spacecraft, plus information about Mars’ surface elevations from the laser altimeter instrument...
August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
... and specialists. United States’ Orbital ATK’s Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV) is one example of a servicing capability. The NASA Restore-L mission is scheduled for 2020, and involves the refuelling of Landsat-7 by a MEV. The MEV will autonomously...
