March 2016
Time for European visionary goals
...marked the 55th anniversary of the first human spaceflight into Earth orbit. Those formative decades in ...to new levels. Yuri Gagarin - the 55th anniversary of his historic spaceflight was celebrated on 12 April They looked into the future, well beyond...
February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
... of the European Space Policy Observatory at Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) in Brussels. She also served as Director of Human Spaceflight of the European Space Agency from 2008 to 2011, and Director of the Observation of the Universe at ASI from...
October 2017
Third quarter phenomenon - the psychology of time in space
... body of work negating the suggestion of a predictable pattern of mood change during spaceflight. Indeed, a monitoring study of an astronaut during a 438-day spaceflight suggested an ‘impressive’ degree of stability in both performance and mood after...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
...dual hatting approach to operations and safety in its human spaceflight ESD (Exploration Systems and Development) programme which will transport...(ESD) and dual hatting The NASA human spaceflight programme has three key components: the human spacecraft...
October 2019
Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset
... to orbit be reduced by about 1000 times within around 15 years using only proven technology? If so, this would revolutionise spaceflight and lead to a new era of space science and exploration, and to the development of a wide range of new commercial...
August 2021
Robotic systems for psychological support
...(films, books, news video programmes, photos, paintings, etc.). However, the experience of psychological support for long spaceflights indicates that some crewmembers clearly prefer auditory stimulation, such as music or audiobooks. The need for this...
