February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
..., or PTH, but it requires regular injections and has a very short shelf life, which is problematic for long spaceflights. Therefore, a transgenic lettuce that produces PTH was engineered. Designing plants able to grow in space and be of use...
April 2026
Rethinking the spacesuit as a biological system
..., habitats and life-support systems – that biological reality most often collides with engineering legacy. As human spaceflight shifts toward longer missions, greater autonomy and renewed lunar ambition, that interface is under growing strain...
May 2024
Beyond Earth’s magnetic field
...now be added, since it has been studied so little to date. In addition, hypomagnetic conditions may increase the impact of spaceflight factors and create additional risks to the health of space exploration crews in the future. Hypomagnetic fields are...
February 2018
Are we asking the right questions about space debris?
... LEO as the collisions will be the most consequential and the collision rate is significant. Assurance of immediate spaceflight safety as the primary objective has encouraged us to examine the possible short-term, highly consequential events (rather...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
..., which reduced the astronaut’s role to little more than a passenger. During the flight of Faith 7, the final spaceflight in the Mercury series, there were mission-threatening technical problems. After experiencing power failure in the capsule...
08 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 1-8.
... 2006 and currently has over 70 members. CSF is one of the leading voices for the commercial spaceflight industry. “The commercial spaceflight industry is developing and innovating at an ever-increasing pace,” said CSF president Eric Stallmer. “With...
