May 2026
Mars exploration – the nuclear option
... 1981 and deep space probes to Jupiter, Saturn and the outer planets, were never realised. Nuclear solution The issue of the travel time to... propellant in a very short time and, for deep-space missions, they are simply too inefficient. Hybrid strategy...
02 October 2019
First look at China's new spacecraft capable of deep-space travel
... released a promotional video to show China’s new-generation crewed craft, that would allow astronauts to travel to the Moon and other deep-space destinations. Looking a lot like the crew and service module from NASA’s Orion spacecraft...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
... this challenge and set about developing a suite of bioscience applications that would help propel humans into deep space travel. The group committed itself to the goal of developing an alternative pathway, one that would leverage biology itself...
May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
...’, access to extended communication opportunities with family and friends, and opportunities to interact with media. However, deep space travel and remote bases pose new challenges, such as absence of resupply missions, communication delays, increase...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
.... Could the same thing happen with a private mining corporation? Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries’ lobbyists essentially wrote the Space Competitiveness Act for the congressmen who supplied it. The Commercial Spaceflight Federation which...