January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... developments in spaceflight since the Apollo days, my conclusion is that, providing humans can adapt successfully to its low gravity, Mars colonisation will become possible. But getting the transport and life-support technologies up to the required...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... engine thrust/weight can be smaller because the low initial trajectory angle does not have large gravity losses; rocket engines can have a lower combustion chamber pressure, which reduces pump complexity and stress...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
...brew beer on the Moon. They call themselves ‘Team Original Gravity,’ vying for a spot to have an experiment sent to the...sample of Ardbeg distillate from space. The experiment demonstrated that gravity has a very real effect on the maturation of spirit...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... under the moon’s icy surface. Finally, measurements of the gravity field also taken by Galileo on the interior composition of Europa,... and propagate through space as influenced by Europa’s gravity. The velocity of the particles derived from the first...
December 2018
Coffee roasting in space
... beans tumble around, break apart and contact hot surfaces all due to gravity. But if gravity is removed, the beans would seemingly float around in a heated oven, giving them 360 degrees of evenly distributed ...
February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
... take place during the period of acute adjustment to zero gravity conditions, which lasts from two to 10 days depending ...actual food items for the period of adjustment to zero-gravity, food items with radio-protective properties and bioactive products...
