February 2019
A universal spaceship design concept
Currently, the field of crewed space exploration is characterised by a small number of nations ... risks as far as possible. With plans for longer missions for the exploration of Mars, asteroids or other objects, the existing solutions arguably fail to...
July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
...Why grow anything on the Moon? Because the Moon is important in the ‘stepping-stone approach’ to future human space exploration missions beyond Earth, which will ultimately need to be self-sufficient. The use of cotton in clothing is well established...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... heavy-lift rocket after an independent commission had presented a range of approaches NASA could pursue in human space exploration, including alternatives to the Ares rockets designed for Constellation. One of those alternatives was to design a new...
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...
13 August 2018
NASA to partner with six US companies to develop space exploration technologies
... Jim Bridenstine, "These awards focus on technology collaborations with the commercial space sector that leverage emerging markets and capabilities to meet NASA's exploration goals. While these key technologies will support NASA's science and human...
