September 2026
Towards a research roadmap for human reproduction beyond Earth
... their mission and come home. But as humanity prepares to establish a permanent presence on the Moon, build commercial space stations and seriously contemplate settlements on Mars, an entirely new set of questions emerges. Not simply how we exist...
16 July 2021
NASA's $25 billion FY2022 funding bill is approved
... companies to build their own and is assisting the effort by providing funding for initial studies of commercial space stations that could ultimately be used by NASA through Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). The agency expects to award between...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
...the world. Non-traditional actors are contributing to a rapidly growing sector encompassing everything from suborbital space tourism to commercial space stations and even lunar landers. Key to this is the increasing number of companies from small and...
September 2026
Pregnancy among the stars - the biology of birth beyond Earth
.... As human spaceflight moves beyond short-duration missions towards permanent settlements on the Moon, commercial space stations and, ultimately, voyages to Mars, reproduction can no longer be regarded as a hypothetical curiosity. If people are...
October 2026
Can humanity outgrow its primitive mind before reaching the stars?
... survival technologies. We discuss asteroid mining, commercial space stations and permanent human communities beyond our planet....and even with ourselves. Life aboard the International Space Stationd depends on global cooperation, with astronauts from ...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... to detach from the ISS to operate as a free-flying commercial space station after the ISS is deorbited. Private space stations It was not NASA that first thought of private commercial space stations. There were many science fiction writers and movie...
