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...
May 2017
Recipe for success on flights to Mars
...air and space museums worldwide, was actually developed for spaceflight but hasn’t ever flown to space. And space ... commercial product attempting to cash in on the excitement around spaceflight in the early 1960s, though they did fly aboard Skylab ...
August 2018
Making a cosmic impression
... had the opportunity to spend some time living and working in space, to paint in space, and now to share my spaceflight experience through my artwork. I’m also thankful to be able to communicate a love of space and art and science through my regular...
October 2020
Connecting the global space community
... take over the coming decades. It is also important that we make even greater use of the possibilities afforded by spaceflight to jointly address the global challenges we are facing, and my term of office allows me the opportunity to help shape...
