November 2020
Space medicine and terrestrial health care
... the Covid-19 pandemic, the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) made recommendations to prevent the impact of the micro-environment on the human locomotion system Space medicine places a high emphasis on researching the effects on the human body...
June 2021
Autonomous robots in space
... to operate remotely controlled robotic devices. Right: 2019, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano navigates through a computer-generated environment to learn the route he might take outside the Space Station on a spacewalk, helping him to take decisions and...
February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
... the 1960s, Russian specialists have been engaged in the development of food and rations for nutrition in a spaceflight environment. Efforts in this field have generated a considerable amount of interest among our foreign colleagues, which has been...
May 2022
Multinational training for interplanetary spaceflight crews
...a lack of familiar linguistic formulae, behavioural reactions and manners. In these cases, especially when communicating in extreme environments, there is a great danger that the meaning ascribed to the behaviour of a person from another culture does...
June 2022
Pandemic parallels
...given the abrupt and complete nature of the disruption. The measures necessary to negate space’s innately dangerous environment parallel the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, because the inherent level of risk is consistently on the cusp of rising...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... board Orion during Van Allen belt transit will be indicative of the shielding capability of AstroRad in the SPE environment even if no SPE occurs during the mission. AstroRad Selective Shielding - proprietary smart shielding that focuses protection...