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...
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...
October 2024
Revolutionising space medicine and global health through virtual and augmented reality
...eating experiences, helping astronauts adapt to new eating habits and manage stress-related dietary changes during deep space missions. Research shows that the Metaverse is able to stimulate human senses in real time, particularly visual and auditory...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... in designing and building of interplanetary spacecraft and astronomical imaging detectors, to be Mission Director. Sentinel would be the first proposed deep space mission to be modelled, built and funded in the private sector. Astronauts Ed Lu and...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... Program. It is clear that we cannot gain all the necessary knowledge for long-duration deep space missions from these near-Earth missions and terrestrial analogues. Nevertheless, these individual insights and design considerations provide invaluable...
