April 2026
Exploring Mars – the key issues
... Mars remains the cultural goal. It is a dream in the collective mind of would-be space explorers, like Elon Musk, who correctly argues that, for humanity to have a positive future, we cannot forever remain confined to one planet. However, as we have...
October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
... our understanding of visual perception issues in altered gravity and resolutions using creative thinking in terms of human space travel and settlement plans. The project also examines the multisensory connections with related brain activities and...
September 2025
Why the global space sector needs urgent regulation
...and Blue Origin is driving increased interest in - and understanding of - the human health impacts of space travel. We have long known that human space travel has major impacts on human health. My first serious interest in this field started as first...
October 2015
Eating in space: from Michelin-starred chefs to self-sufficiency
... this question is one of the most pressing issues for the future of human space travel. If we can’t feed ourselves, we cannot survive. In many ways the challenges of eating in space are quite similar to those we face on Earth. We need to make sure...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... dysrhythmias, life-support systems, mental health, and public health. Radiation Radiation is a major challenge for human space travel. Away from Earth’s protective magnetic field, two key types of radiation are of concern: solar particle events...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... back much further than we might think. Human space travel first appeared in literature many centuries before it became a possibility in the ‘real world’. Utopian demands The startling idea that human space exploration might not be the best decision...
