February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
... space agency (CNES), Chair of the Council of the European Space Agency (ESA) and President of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF). Earlier in his career, whilst at the helm of Arianespace, he was the artisan of the technical procedures...
July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
..., full-size, deep space habitat prototypes. The mockups, constructed by five US companies, offer different perspectives on how astronauts will live and work aboard the Gateway. The explosion of investment in smart control and diagnostic technologies...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... the historical precedent, this seems unlikely. Boeing cut short the uncrewed demonstration flight of its new astronaut capsule, Starliner, in December 2019 after it suffered technical problems that prevented it docking with the International Space...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
...well as numerous defence and planetary science missions. Astronauts flew aboard the Space Shuttle to the International Space... will resume the capability for the US to fly its own astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) from US soil and ...
January 2021
Asgardia’s project for a new module to expand Space Station
...have not traditionally had access to human space exploration, as shown by the inauguration of the United Arab Emirates astronaut programme and other initiatives such as the Indian, Turkish and Nigerian spaceflight programmes. Proposed position of the...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... of Apollo. I grew up at a time when spaceflight was all about astronauts and the Moon. I ate, slept and breathed Apollo, and watched in ... coffee table. Instead I was fascinated by where the astronauts were going and what they might do there. My ...
