June 2015
The real Interstellar: space travel theories from Tsiolkovsky to wormholes
... nuclear weapons were created, more detailed plans for interstellar travel emerged. These included Freeman Dyson’s Orion study, based on nuclear pulse propulsion, and the works of Leslie Robert Shepherd.2 Antimatter, predicted by Paul Dirac...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... display’. [15] Artist’s illustration depicting a ‘Plymouth Rock’ asteroid mission with astronauts and NASA’s Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft, designed specifically for deep space missions NASA exchanged samples with the Soviet Union, helping...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... that he has support from within NASA, if not from those parts of NASA most directly interested in the Orion-SLS (Space Launch System) programme. What he is clearly trying to do is to start a snowball effect to which a variety of entities from...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... of NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), in mid-2018 and deploy from it after the Orion crew capsule is separated from the upper stage and on its way to the Moon. After NEA Scout...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... habitat would coincide with planned human missions in order for the MICEHAB samples to be loaded onto the Orion capsule for Earth return with the crew. Maintenance on the MICEHAB would also be performed if required while...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
... habitats on the Moon or Mars without the builders exceeding their nation’s career limits for radiation exposure. Orion is NASA’s first spacecraft for longduration deep space exploration. It will transport humans to and from interplanetary...
