June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
... technologies.17 These and other ‘Big Problem’ areas on Earth include some interesting intersections with the needs of human space exploration and development. Two of these, the availability and processing of water for propellant, but also for life...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... for a variety of missions. The primary purpose of SLS is to enable a new era of human space exploration unlike any before it. As NASA continues to mature plans for deep space exploration, SLS and Orion are crucial assets in that journey. The first...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
... sensors will build and extend this knowledge base. Since crew health and human system research and development are critical to enabling human space exploration, physiological research often takes a majority of the science time for crews onboard...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
...community will help to re-frame the discourse around space exploration, and to broaden today’s technology-driven human space exploration paradigm. About the author Tibor Balint is a Principal Human Centred Designer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
... quantifying the impact of any public announcement regarding evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. As an anthropologist who researches human space exploration, I wondered, could the Drake Equation and the Rio Scale be taken one step further? Can...
December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
... of a large reservoir due to mistake or noncompliance could endanger the lives of any lunar residents and slow future human space exploration. China and Russia (ILRS) and NASA (Artemis) have separately evolving plans to establish a permanent...
