July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... Architects and designers have been making important and fundamental contributions since the very beginning of human space exploration to increase the conditions of crew comfort – which directly reflect on greater operational efficiency and therefore...
14 January 2020
Rising sea levels pose threat to KSC
... the world and that, ultimately, Cape Canaveral may prove to have been just a starting point for human space exploration. “Today we’re constrained to coastal areas but in the long haul you need to be flexible and reliable enough to fly...
25 February 2018
International Space Station – Architecture Beyond Earth
... is not so much the experiments conducted on board (though of course many of them are important in the context of human space exploration) but the fact that it is a football field-sized structure built in Earth orbit. This aspect is fully recognised...
May 2016
A new microgravity research facility for Central Texas and beyond
... is one of the more difficult environmental parameters to simulate. What to do with Microgravity? Since the beginning of human space exploration in the middle of the 20th century, when astronauts conducted first medical and biological experiments...
February 2020
Climate change and spaceports – a difficult balance
... today’s green technologies, but technologies developed much further down the road. The trouble is, much like human space exploration itself, beneficial technology has been stifled for so many years while the most environmentally unfriendly options...
26 October 2021
Blue Origin and Sierra Space announce development of a commercial space station
... for Orbital Reef, a commercially developed, owned, and operated space station to be built in low Earth orbit. The station will open the next chapter of human space exploration and development by facilitating the growth of a vibrant ecosystem and...
