June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
... Orbiter will have plenty to study on the dynamic Sun. SolarBlack is a natural product, a black powder containing phosphorous, calcium, carbon, oxygen and silicon. This is applied to the titanium foil by a patented process that locks the constituents...
February 2019
The challenge of procreation for future off-world settlers
... in bone density in the spine of 2.9 percent and of the hip by 3.8 percent. There was also an increase in blood levels of calcium, which can predispose to kidney stones and other problems.Astronauts in Earth orbit would routinely lose one...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
... minerals which then slowly sank and formed the mantle. Meanwhile, plagioclase, a form of feldspar rich in sodium/calcium, floated to the top to form the crust. Later on, magma from deep in the mantle, and therefore still...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
... that are not typical of terrestrial conditions (in the form of iron, aluminium, titanium, magnesium, sodium, potassium and calcium oxides). For this reason, and not coincidentally, on 6 April 2020, the President of the United States signed...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
... in the maria, whereas in the highlands, the rocks are largely anorthosites and are relatively rich in aluminium, calcium, and silicon. Dr John Wilkins (left) and (right) the frontispiece to his A Discovery of a New World; or, A Discourse tending...
January 2023
The effects of spaceflight on the female body
... hypokinesia (bed rest) study conducted in the early 1990s at IBMP. The pharmacological corrections for changes in calcium metabolism and bone tissue condition that were tested in the experiment were promising. It is extremely important to study...
