July 2019
Next steps in human space exploration
... to the way it used to be billions of years ago. Every one of us has talked about using space and space exploration to make life better for humans here on the planet and in fact that’s our goal. We’ll continue to do like we always said at NASA...
July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
... results. Why grow anything on the Moon? Because the Moon is important in the ‘stepping-stone approach’ to future human space exploration missions beyond Earth, which will ultimately need to be self-sufficient. The use of cotton in clothing is well...
April 2026
Rethinking the spacesuit as a biological system
... tested through fatigue, failure and adaptation. Over time, those experiences converged on a simple conclusion: the future of human space exploration will depend less on heroic hardware than on how well systems complement and support the...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... a detailed description of the MARE payload and its implications for enabling future human space exploration. While astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), at an altitude of about 400 km, are beyond the radiation protection of Earth...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... super heavy-lift rocket after an independent commission had presented a range of approaches NASA could pursue in human space exploration, including alternatives to the Ares rockets designed for Constellation. One of those alternatives was to design...
January 2023
Is human space exploration DOOMED?
... ‘conquered’ Earth but what we might call the ‘law of expansion’ forces humanity to look towards space to further widen the scope of its successes. Yet humanity will not triumphantly go forth across the never-ending Universe, because its...
