26 October 2018
Orion's service module ready to be shipped from Europe
... capability, and provide safe re-entry from speeds that can exceed 25,000 mph as astronauts return from deep-space missions. Most of the operations required for day to day living, such as breathing and heating are provided by the...
12 December 2019
Blue Origin's New Shepard makes 12th test flight
...Blue Origin's ninth commercial payload, which included a recycling experiment to harvest useful gases from common waste on deep space missions, two high school and middle school art experiments and an undergraduate experiment from Columbia University...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... with astronauts and NASA’s Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft, designed specifically for deep space missions NASA exchanged samples with the Soviet Union, helping to deplete the very limited quantity of samples (approximately ...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
..., blood, skin, bones currently being demonstrated on ground may offer the possibility of hastening the sustainability of deep space missions and planetary colonisation. On Earth the possibility of printing organs using stem cells may open the unique...
March 2016
Captivating hearts and minds
... the American TV series True Blood, which made a synthetic beverage that enabled vampires to ‘live among humans’, deep space missions such as Rosetta could partner with a drinks company on something like a ‘comet water’ fizzy drink. Partnerships like...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... flights. Crewed formation flying may be valuable for future manned deep space missions. It would provide more redundancy and flexibility for long-duration missions. Co-orbital space stations would offer a chance to experiment with this concept. The...
