November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... of almost all humankind. And all speak fervently of peace. On 16 July 1969 a Saturn V rocket lifted off on a historic voyage and four days later millions of people watched as the first human footprints were set on the Moon...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
..., we can do this’.” Space radiation could be one of the biggest issues affecting astronauts launching on NASA’s SLS on future voyages to the Moon and Mars. www.libertybiosecurity.org About the authors Dr David A Sinclair, co-founder and Chief...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... show up for decades. Nothing required the Titanic to hit an iceberg on its maiden rather than its 200th voyage but the defects were there from the start. The supersonic airliner Concorde is in a museum because of inadequacy...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... current CubeSat standard, designed originally for LEO satellites, is not applicable for interplanetary missions, where the voyage is long, often lasting many years and where batteries drain, temperatures fluctuate rapidly and where radiation...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
... connected terranaut. References 1 https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_2018_strategic_plan.pdf 2 NASA Voyages: Charting the Course for Sustainable Human Space Exploration, 2012 https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/657307main_Exploration...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... the journey time, right now the only way we know to survive the trip is through a multi-generational voyage, so why not investigate this? After all, population genetics can be studied with much more accuracy than...
