August 2018
UAE’s ambitious plans for space sector growth
...in Dubai that will become a working simulation of a complete Mars habitat. The Hope mission to Mars, due for launch in 2020. ... that will be become a working simulation of a complete Mars habitat The first thing you should know is that the UAE is ...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... system approach. Team Zopherus of Rogers, Arkansas, won first place in the Virtual Modeling Stage of NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Competition with a design that includes using a moving printer that deploys rovers to retrieve local materials. Water...
May 2019
A matter of perspective
.... Colonisation requires the establishment of permanent bases that have the potential for self-expansion, and inflatable habitats are one possible option for surface architecture on Mars. Geodesic spheres as invented by Buckminster Fuller in the 1950s...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
..., recent scientific discoveries point to many new possible habitats and highlight extra astrobiological potential in the solar system... Some of these aspects concern the Martian moons, potential habitats in the subsurfaces of the icy moons of the outer...
July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
... all of these conditions simultaneously in a controlled environment on Earth, but it is possible to investigate individual aspects of a Moon-like habitat to test a plant’s response. One very important factor for humans and plants alike is the Moon...
August 2020
Interplanetary spaceflight and restorative justice
... signs of psychological disturbance, or simply behaving in an irritating manner, will be minimal. View from mission control into the habitat of the SIRIUS-19 four-month analogue mission that served as the crew’s spacecraft, lunar lander and home...