September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... of the moment will allow us to go. I would like to take the opposite approach and begin at the very top - in deep space. Perhaps a middle ground of aerospace defence can be found by defining the defence of planet Earth - because, in the face...
January 2023
The effects of spaceflight on the female body
...many more men than women have been involved in space missions. Nevertheless, the participation of women in space flights is increasing every year and the exploration of deep space would be unthinkable without the participation of women. The Institute...
18 March 2019
A habitat prototype for NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway
... Valania of Sierra Nevada Corp., who answered questions March 14 on Twitter about the company’s prototype of an inflatable deep-space habitat. NASA awarded six companies contracts worth a total of $65 million in 2016 to develop habitat concepts and...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
..., receding out to endless, star-dotted blackness. That is an illusion. From Earth orbit to deep space and the planetary surfaces beyond, space missions involve exposure to some of the most demanding and hostile operational environments in which human...
November 2016
Emergency dental treatment on way to Mars
...Mars. In stark contrast to Earth orbital spaceflight, such deep space missions will not allow easy repatriation of a sick or ...and remoteness of future exploration mission to Moon, Mars and deep space. Dental emergencies are just one of the many extra ...
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...
