May 2017
Recipe for success on flights to Mars
... 1960s, though they did fly aboard Skylab III. Martha collects rocks. Today’s space food eaten aboard the International Space Station (ISS) shares more similarities with military Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), vacuum sealed plastic pouches that...
January 2018
Space nation's first orbiting satellite
... 2017 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as a part of the OA-8 Antares-Cygnus mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and deployed after Cygnus completed its mission at the ISS and was placed into a higher orbit. Speaking from...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...exploration directions. Other nations may well follow and, like the International Space Station (ISS), this approach could involve collective national initiatives. European Space Agency (ESA) Director General, Jan Woerner, is among those enthusiastic...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... planetary science missions. Astronauts flew aboard the Space Shuttle to the International Space Station and the Space Coast region rode the economic boom of America’s thriving space programme as the Air Force provided Cape Canaveral facilities, NASA...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... as NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services programme can possibly do for the lunar surface what Commercial Resupply Services did for the International Space Station, providing reliable and relatively cheap access via commercial platforms. Several...
May 2024
Beyond Earth’s magnetic field
... of Earth’s magnetic field, and the International Space Station (ISS) is in low Earth orbit, where cosmonauts and astronauts are protected by Earth’s magnetosphere. However, the exploration of deep space, including flights to the Moon and Mars, imply...
