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...
October 2025
What future for UK human spaceflight?
... such as Coogan or Christian could be assigned to a lunar mission remains uncertain but plausible. Axiom Space, a Houston-based spaceflight services company, and Italian luxury fashion house Prada revealed the outer layer of the spacesuit to be worn...
May 2024
Spaceflight revolution on a shoestring
..., spaceplanes broadly comparable to Spacecab were widely studied by several large aircraft companies during the pioneering days of spaceflight, with the aim of replacing the converted ballistic missiles then in use. The European designs were given...
October 2020
Microgravity and its effects on the human brain
...will undoubtedly last even longer - up to several years in the case of a flight to Mars - so understanding the full effects of spaceflight on the human body is essential to ensure successful and healthy outcomes for space travellers. Outer space will...
June 2022
Pandemic parallels
... out of the pandemic points to some similarities between issues created by the lockdown restrictions and those faced by spaceflight participants. The impact of those restrictions has become increasingly pronounced as time has gone on. This raises the...
10 February 2017
UK pledges cash for commercial launch capabilities
... a scheme designed to help develop commercial launch capability for spaceflight – a market that is worth an estimated £25 billion over... I announced today, together with a new, dedicated Spaceflight Bill, will help make our space ambitions a reality...
