16 January 2022
Asteroids: how love, fear and greed will determine our future in space
... and serious plans have been made for the future of asteroid mining, asteroids have moved beyond the...industry. It’s not clear that this lyrical triumvirate “will determine our future in space”, but it’s a decent lead into an interesting analysis...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
...of radiation but this alone will not be sufficient to protect the colonists, so shielding technology will also be necessary. Future Mars settlements may be partially buried to reduce radiation impact, as this cutaway view shows. Shielding against SPE...
February 2019
The challenge of procreation for future off-world settlers
... or 32 ft/s2). Our skeletons and muscles, vestibulocochlear system, and cardiovascular systems, have all developed accordingly. Future off-world colonies, though all very different, will probably have one thing in common - significantly lower ...
April 2026
Robotics is the future of space labour
... commercial mspace stations, there is now more demand for science in orbit than ever before, and numerous future habitats are planned. The need for extra hands in space is huge and the next great bottleneck...
20 May 2022
Outer Space - future for humankind issues of law and policy
... and policy is about as practical as a tome on legislation and process can get. Even its title – “Outer Space - future for humankind” - implies a fundamental forward-looking pragmatic stance. The titles of its multi-author contributions certainly...
23 September 2024
Japan in Space: Past, Present and Future
... names. So, having studied the nation in some detail, what does the author expect from Japan in terms of future space development? It seems that “the defining issue of the Japanese space programme” is the “US-Japan relationship”, highlighted...
