February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
...published along the way. Fathers of rocketry Three men are widely recognised as the fathers of rocketry for spaceflight – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (Russia), Hermann Oberth (Romania/Germany), and Robert Goddard (USA). Tsiolkovsky published several small...
June 2021
How time perception as a spaceflight stress indicator
... each operation. Figure 1. Distributions of Time category use in three groups of subjects A number of cosmonauts interviewed after their spaceflights have reported the impression of time running both fast and slow at the same time. During daily...
January 2023
The effects of spaceflight on the female body
.... However, in these earlier model experiments the test subjects were mostly males, so the effect of simulated factors of spaceflight on the vaginal microbiome has not been studied before. The microflora of this biotope play an important part...
September 2017
Spaceflight studies support geriatric health on Earth
...This illustrates how data generated from ground-based analogues of spaceflight could be used in geriatrics. Nutrition There is growing ...was founder and director of the Institute for Adaptive and Spaceflight Physiology in Graz (1994-2010). He was ESA ...
August 2020
Interplanetary spaceflight and restorative justice
... happened, agreement might not be reached following a restorative justice conference. That said, the special context of interplanetary spaceflight, where crew members have clear shared interests in the success and safety of the mission, may increase...
January 2021
Medical professionals and long-duration spaceflight
...to 7 November 1998. Bob Thirsk, a family physician and astronaut of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), completed two spaceflights: as a payload specialist from 20 June to 7 July 1996 and as a mission engineer from 27-29 May 2009. André Kuipers, a Dutch...
