November 2020
Walking on the Moon
.... Mission Three, currently in the planning stage, will deliver a similar rover ensemble to a lava tube, in search of a future habitat. The size and agility of the Asagumo is particularly suited to the exploration of lava tubes, or caves, which can...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... for fashion and product design elements in the interior’s habitat. ‘Re-configurability’ was the key to gaining internal space and...the well-being of the crew optimising use of the interior habitat and the expansion of the living room to add a new...
December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
...utilised in situ for the development and maintenance of lunar habitats. However, commercial extraction of these resources raises the ... as time needed to ensure that the capacity of lunar habitats is not exceeded and that launch and landing can be ...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... six to eight months. We must provide them with a habitat capable of housing them and their supplies for the long trip... will be needed when humans arrive. Astronauts will need a surface habitat during their stay on Mars, a shelter to protect them from...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... resets the boundaries of macromolecular stability and biochemical pathways. Organisms which provide anti-microbial substances reside in habitats where the molecules they produce often confer a permissive advantage for host survival by crowding out...
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
...peppers in the ISS in 2021 for the Plant-Habitat 04 investigation. Bioregenerative life support system Eating freeze-dried...around, two aspects that make it disadvantageous. The Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) installed in the ISS has already grown a ...
