July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
...operate private stations on a commercial basis using the ISS as a technology demonstration platform. Targeting the Moon Space exploration is not only attracting the interest of an increasing number of governments around the world but also the private...
October 2024
Space exploration remains a crucial endeavour for humanity
... grow plants without sunlight and open air. Scientific and technological advancement The profound impact of space exploration on technological and scientific advancement is evident, with benefits extending across almost all sectors of society and the...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... need artificial machines to do our thinking and speaking”, is considered a positive outcome by most technology gurus today. Space exploration now – a futuristic vision of mining asteroids and the Moon for water, minerals and precious metals. Falcon...
July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
... a crew on board during which there is no need to perform its processing functions. This operating regime needs to be fully explored and understood to optimise the ECLS equipment operations to assure components do not degrade while the crew is away...
December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
... human[ity]’s first sharing platform in the lunar south pole, supporting long-term, large-scale scientific exploration, technical experiments and development and utilization of lunar resources”. This is a logical extension of the OST, in that agents...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... Netherlands, at the end of 2015. The symposium, ‘Moon 2020-2030 - A New Era of Coordinated Human and Robotic Exploration’ was the ideal platform for Woerner to articulate his vision. He’s something of a catalyst and likes to paint pictures...
