September 2023
Five more years for Asgardia’s stellar democracy
... tremendous progress in creating a shared forum for debate where people are not excluded on the basis of language or culture. The Asgardia General Election was held at a time when Parliament already had momentum from existing Asgardian...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... other and with technical equipment. Conflict and cooperation are researched, as is the influence of microgravity on social and cultural aspects of life aboard the ISS. This retrospective research helps to inform future habitat designs about social...
October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
...confirm that they were led into their professions by the cultural experiences (often science fiction) of their youth, including ... patterns occur naturally and have been used for cultural structures and rituals throughout Earth’s societies, creating...
March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
... in space exploration, what does that tell us about us in relation to the vast space we are part of? That is where culture comes into the picture. How do we represent ourselves? How do we express these representations in science, in art, in all forms...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... is, how can biotechnology support and benefit future space missions? To highlight that the culture is a living thing, the team named their co-culture ‘Ginny’ after the old Nordic mythology concept of space ‘Ginnungagap’ (the bottomless abyss...
September 2023
How microorganisms survive space travel
..., aminoglycosides, colistin and chloramphenicol (Tables 1 and 2). However, this minor change was sufficient to move the cultures under study from the category of sensitive to moderately sensitive and moderately sensitive to the resistant category...