May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
..., concepts and solutions will have to be developed. Astronauts living on the International Space Station for extended periods... navigation skills. For example, VR was used to train astronauts in the repair and maintenance of the Hubble Space Telescope,...
June 2021
Autonomous robots in space
... be assimilated in real-time. NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are, of course, keenly focused on ensuring astronaut safety, so the opportunities to look at ADSS technology for space applications quickly became apparent. Project aims The...
July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
...CSA’s valued partnership with NASA resulted in more Canadian astronaut flights on the Space Shuttle as well as long-duration... out, far exceeding their design life. Spacewalking astronauts replaced those parts, further proving the maintainability of...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... arrangement. This approach had already been used successfully to develop private capsules to carry cargo and then astronauts to the ISS. So, NASA sought a private partner to design, build, launch and operate a private space station in partnership...