June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... discoveries confirmed his assumptions. Fig. 1. Options for the radial construction of squadron ships in the Testudo package. Crew protection Flights to Mars and its colonisation are an integral part of the idea of a space expansion There are still...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
..., transferring energy to whatever they hit. The Apollo lunar landing craft were part-shielded to afford some crew protection from radiation. Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard (pictured) and Ed Mitchell, who spent 33½ hours on the Moon in 1971...