February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... can hitch a ride back home. Cristoforetti in Cupola with the famous cup of espresso Sometimes we work on tissue cultures that are put into a little portable container called Kubik (the ESA incubator-centrifuge) which stores...
February 2016
Space – Overcoming Our Limitations
... limits. After all, what is an astronaut but somebody who didn’t believe in their limits? And that is what we as a culture have to do - blow out of our limits.” Tumlinson comes from a long line of people who didn’t believe in limits...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
... of mostly open terrain to create the perfect conditions for transparency. Add to this the wider technological and cultural impact of mobile devices and social media in the Middle East, and it becomes increasingly difficult for governments...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
... tends to give unlimited authority to the mission commander, this is problematic for two reasons. The first is cultural; the omnipotent commander approach tends to indicate a military structure with attendant codes of discipline. The experiences...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
... inputs (from sensor data) and ‘soft’ inputs (UN guidelines, EU codes of conduct, country-specific doctrine and cultural beliefs, press announcements, open source literature, etc.) could deliver to both groups a physically and semantically consistent...
August 2016
Long-term spaceflight and microbiological safety issues
... orbital station during the first 10 years of its operation, with certain fungal strains being the descendants of cultures found seven or eight years earlier. Nevertheless, orbital space stations have been successfully operating for many...
