May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... at a time. A new wave of lunar exploration is just getting underway in this scenario. Researchers figuring out how to make habitats out of lunar regolith, the abrasive dust and sharp rocks of the surface, still work back on Earth...
April 2021
Managing the Moon - a model for engaging with planetary environments
... to protect the Moon as there is no life there. But with proposed missions planned to establish a more permanent habitat, extract local resources and potentially use these to explore Mars, perhaps it is time to rethink old attitudes towards ...
January 2023
Space sustainability imperative
... three trillion dollars and assume all sorts of leading-edge developments, such as in-orbit servicing and manufacturing, habitats and the development of an in-orbit economy, even extending to other planetary bodies and extracting resources from...
February 2016
Shifting Space Perspectives: Artistic Research as Connective Research Area
...life support system, similar to the system on our spaceship Earth. Spaceflight parameters All spaceship and space habitat structures such as Medusa touch on what we call spaceflight parameters: self-sufficiency, limited resources, minimal space, life...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... missions. The average temperature on Mars is -63C so there would also be a need to maintain Earth-like temperatures inside habitats. Unlike on previous human space missions, which have operated almost exclusively in vacuum and therefore were more...
02 April 2021
SNC unveils plan to build its own commercial space station
... received funding from NASA in 2016 to develop a habitat concept and prototype along with five other prominent space industry...Garden® system to provide fresh food within the habitat. The LIFE habitat will undergo a NASA soft-goods certification this...
