September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
...11 July, when Richard Branson flew as ‘Astronaut 001’ on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo suborbital tourism vehicle, VSS Unity. The Unity 22 mission, launched from New Mexico’s Spaceport America and piloted by Dave Mackay and Michael Masucci, provided...
November 2018
Creating the ‘Space for Art Foundation’
...programmes take off in other hospitals and countries. Unity was physically built through many hours of volunteer workmanship...building two more, Dreamer and Exploration. Dreamer, led by the UNITY team in Russia, will be an Orlan-based suit created from...
September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
... follow each other’s journeys. HOPE-Suit1 Our third suit, UNITY, is about broadening this message of togetherness. In September, Nicole... collected on this global mission into our third suit, UNITY. In preparation for our trip to Moscow, I recently...
February 2016
Shifting Space Perspectives: Artistic Research as Connective Research Area
...sciences. They were the prerequisite for approaching the ‘unity of the sciences’ and expanding the project into ... can also be observed with astronauts viewing Earth in its entirety and unity, as a whole system, from the windows of their spaceship. As...
March 2026
Lessons learned on the way to space
... relevant to space systems development and operations. VSS Unity powering its way to space. First spaceflight Although ...was mostly hidden away in obscure technical publications. VSS Unity in the hanger at Spaceport America. External reviews There...
February 2018
Journey of inspiration
... paint them. We now have four completed art suits - HOPE, COURAGE, UNITY & VICTORY. COURAGE and UNITY have both flown to and from the ISS. UNITY was modelled after the peaceful and successful relationships of the ISS...
