October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... shelter as a method to protect crew from intense SPE. The storm shelter is an internal area in the spacecraft where astronauts huddle together to be as protected as possible during the SPE by the structure of Orion and available on-board mass. While...
April 2026
Robotics is the future of space labour
.... Now, 30 years later, we have yet to see much of an improvement in our understanding. We have heard it directly from the astronauts upon their return: bone structure changing, muscles atrophying, hearts and eyes modified! Space remains fundamentally...
October 2026
Stitching the Moonwalker – how AI, seamstresses and Prada are reinventing the spacesuit
... temperatures, vacuum, solar radiation and micrometeorites. Yet those early spacesuits were bulky and restricted mobility. Astronauts developed a characteristic hopping gait and even simple tasks, like bending to pick up a rock, turned into strenuous...
December 2014
Skolkovo and a new breed of Russian space startups
...Kokorich was inspired to create the company after meeting the lateRoscosmos director Vladimir Popovkin at the International Astronautical Congress in Capetown in 2011. After obtaining a licence for space production, by the end of 2012, Dauria had won...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
...systems with automated functions in order to remove the human error liability possible or desirable? And although replacing astronauts with robots might reduce the inconvenience and costs of the necessary life sustainment functions required in manned...
May 2019
Space for Art – Astronauts and artists
...of his spaceflights with all of us on Earth. Apollo astronaut and moon walker Alan Bean was also a very talented ... to be through art, but I’m confident that all of the new astronauts will feel compelled to share it in their own way. We must not...
