June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... bodies. Most importantly, the guidelines also help to preserve the terrestrial biosphere from possible contamination by alien material brought back by sample-return missions. Artist impression of the MMX spacecraft around Phobos and Deimos...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
... push ever further into the solar system in the next decades, the need to keep astronauts healthy in an alien and dangerous environment, potentially days or months away from Earthbound medical support infrastructure, is likely to drive healthcare...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... Burgess. The MoonArk may enter the archaeological record of the Moon and at its time of discovery it may be an alien object sent from the distant planet Earth. We assume that future humans will have eyes and...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... staring into the wider universe, unlocking its secrets on our behalf. As rovers they traverse hostile and alien landscapes in pursuit of knowledge. Satellites ARE space explorers. Can anyone doubt that after Rosetta and Philae...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
... programmes and projects that aim to look into the future of our world, explore cosmological phenomena and alien planets, invent space technology, record stories of the emotional and physical experience of living in space, and preserve...
May 2024
DNA across the universe - the new Noah’s Ark?
... influence, and “backup storage of the genes of an endangered species”. Could such DNA be found in the distant future by an alien space-faring civilization? Could it then be possible to re-create humans, tigers, animals and plants from their DNA...
