June 2018
Striding through space
.... In fact, he is mostly hidden behind the Shuttle’s manipulator arm. It may seem extraordinary to the lay person that astronauts, often thought to be the pinnacle of human fitness and capability, would be allowed to fly if they needed to wear glasses...
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...
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...
August 2018
UAE’s ambitious plans for space sector growth
...ROOM’s managing editor Clive Simpson during the 2017 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, to discuss... objective. Is it important for UAE to have its own astronauts? Mars 2017 is an initiative by the government to create ...
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...
