April 2026
Rethinking the spacesuit as a biological system
... through fatigue, failure and adaptation. Over time, those experiences converged on a simple conclusion: the future of human space exploration will depend less on heroic hardware than on how well systems complement and support the human body...
20 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Asks and Answers: If Space is So Hard, Why Should We Go there?
An inspirational talk by Rick Tumlinson about the possibilities and potential of space exploration and the importance of breaking boundaries in order to reach new horizons in space. TEDxESA talks more: Geraint “Taff” Morgan Discusses Using Rosetta's...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
...truly began in 2010, when a private company first successfully launched a round-trip space flight. Commercial innovation in space Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies (“SpaceX”), founded in 2002, made history in December 2010 when it became the...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... where we can gain knowledge about the evolution of the Solar System and is also a potential platform for space exploration. ESA German astronaut Alexander Gerst onboard the ISS. Implementation of national objectives in accordance with the German...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... project is not only an inspirational project that lays the base for further research and innovation in regards to space exploration but it can also be instantly and directly applied to solve problems on Earth. About the authors Iris M. Madsen...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... a distant horizon. But however symbolic it may seem, it will assure that the base of a new generation of competitive space exploration will be founded in our shared humanity. This plaque, left on the Moon at the Apollo 15 landing site in August...
