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 ...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
Star Trek actor William Shatner was keen to describe his feelings to Jeff Bezos after his brief spaceflight in Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-18: “Everybody in the world needs to do this,” he said. “Everybody in the world needs to see it. It ...
September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
... sanctions’, Financial Post, 18 April 2025). Rasad satellite ready for launch. International context Although Iranian human spaceflight is the stuff of rumour, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev reportedly made the first offer to fly an Iranian in 1990...
06 February 2020
Record-setting astronaut Christina Koch and crewmates return from ISS
... town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Koch’s extended mission will provide researchers the opportunity to observe effects of long-duration spaceflight on a woman as the agency plans to return humans to the Moon under the Artemis program and prepare for...
November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
.... The effects of low, or zero gravity, were nevertheless not studied much before the first human spaceflights. As human spaceflights developed with the exploration ambitions of different nations, research on the effects of exposure to space and low...
