January 2021
Medical professionals and long-duration spaceflight
...has shown the significant value of including a health worker in the team. When it comes to long-term space missions – especially those in deep space - the inclusion of a doctor on the team should be seen as ‘normal’, not least because of the positive...
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...
October 2015
Baikonur, Kibo and beyond: Japan’s leading role in space
... history dates back to the 1940s, and has recently been involved in a variety of interesting projects. One of those is deep space exploration. In December 2014, building on the experience gained from Hayabusa, another asteroid probe was launched from...
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...
