June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
.... During the flight of Faith 7, the final spaceflight in the Mercury series, there were mission-threatening ...Human dependability Human dependability is about the contribution of a crew member in a space system to safety and reliability. Machines...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
...10 October 1967 8 It is the preference of the author to adopt the non-gender specific term ‘human’ or ‘crewed’ spaceflight. References to ‘manned’ spaceflight will only be when citing specific instruments which use these terms (specifically the Draft...
March 2026
Lessons learned on the way to space
... of the commercial launch industry in the US. The Unity 22 mission in August 2021 was Virgin Galactic’s first fully crewed spaceflight. The crew comprised (from left) Commander Dave Mackay, Colin Bennett (Lead Operations Engineer), Beth Moses (Chief...
January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
... gasification reactor. The reactor was designed to accept simulated logistical waste (with a composition similar to that on a crewed spaceflight mission) and convert it from solid to gas. The payload successfully demonstrated feeding trash into the...
16 July 2018
Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond
... the final Shuttle mission in a 30-year-long programme, the book is a timely reminder of the state of play in American crewed spaceflight and the apparent lack of urgency to replace the Shuttle with anything even mildly comparable. The author...
25 March 2020
China to launch experimental deep-space spacecraft in April
... length of Shenzou's three modules, which was designed to support its crewed spaceflight program, is 8.24 metres. It will be able to carry six astronauts or a crew of three if a cargo payload up to 500 kilograms is carried on board. In comparison...
