May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
Space missions of all kinds are becoming ever more ambitious in terms of frequency, distance and complexity. As mission requirements grow and evolve at an increasing rate, Dr Barrie Dunn looks at how the global space industry is pushing the ...
June 2021
How time perception as a spaceflight stress indicator
... lays cable for the installation of the Icarus animal-tracking experiment on the Zvezda service module during a spacewalk that lasted seven hours 46 minutes. The blaming style in our sample was more typical for experienced...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
... be, so we get to write our own rules about approach and docking, and transfer of supplies and robotic requirements or spacewalk requirements. GUPTA One of the other things that’s really a benefit is the technology itself. The ISS has...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
.... The crew will operate mostly from inside the convenience of their radiation-shielded rotating habitat, but spacewalks could be used in exceptional cases. After completion, the megasatellite can grow exponentially to make room for new...
05 October 2015
ESTEC opens its doors, 9,000 hi-res Apollo photos go online, and other news from the weekend
... bid for Apollo 15 commander David Scott’s Bulova watch, the only personal timepiece ever worn on a lunar spacewalk, which will be up for online bidding on October 15. Finally, United Launch Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture...
09 April 2016
Flawless launch for SpaceX Dragon
... 11 for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, west of Baja California, bringing almost 3,500 pounds of science, hardware and spacewalking tools back to Earth for further study, including biological samples from NASA's one-year mission.
