November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
... produce for overwintering crews at the Neumayer III Antarctic station while at the same time to advance the spaceflight readiness of a number of key plant growth technologies. The MTF will also serve as a tool to develop operational procedures...
November 2016
Emergency dental treatment on way to Mars
... time of launch. So far in the history of human spaceflight the occurrence of dental injuries has been minimal. During the ...asteroids and Mars. In stark contrast to Earth orbital spaceflight, such deep space missions will not allow easy repatriation...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... activity economically feasible; the infrastructure is also much more resilient and much safer than current human spaceflight. This is in part due to the increased reliability of the systems that is a consequence of reusability, but also because all...
November 2020
Space medicine and terrestrial health care
... preventing the unfavourable effects of weightlessness and other spaceflight factors, which make it possible for people to... measures developed to cope with the negative influence of spaceflight may have applications in the therapy and preventive care...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
...ISS) programme remains the flagship programme for human spaceflight and international collaboration, although its longer term ...vision for LEO includes a sustainable US-led commercial human spaceflight marketplace, China also plans to develop its own ...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
Frank De Winne joined the European Space Agency’s Astronaut Corps in January 2000 and made his first spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2002 in support of the Odissea mission. He served as a flight engineer and conducted 23 ...
