October 2015
From post-humanity to fractals: is human space exploration doomed?
...’ the 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...
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...
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...
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... the accelerators are focused on societal needs, the inspirators are aimed at inspiring people about space. On one side there is human space exploration, which is very well understood as an inspiration for young people. The question is whether Europe...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
... organisations of various agencies and with broad international collaboration, the challenges necessary for human space exploration in medicine and related fields (biology, physiology, psychophysiology, habitability problems and creation of life...
October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
... Earth. Acknowledging that art and science are interwoven disciplines and are integral to an innovative future, human space exploration and survival must consider the creative enhancements of art, architecture, geometric proportion and colour, making...
