October 2024
Revolutionising space medicine and global health through virtual and augmented reality
... exploration, telemedicine has served as a fundamental approach for delivering healthcare since the beginning of human space travel, by connecting crewmembers with physicians on the ground. With the Metaverse, real-time interaction between astronauts...
May 2019
Space for Art – Astronauts and artists
...reflect on all of the lessons we’ve learned from our Apollo travels to the Moon. These lessons are absolutely those of discovery, ...creative expression has been going on since the start of human space travel, by the people who have flown NASA and other...
29 March 2018
Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars
... the words of a surprisingly brief cover-blurb, the author “lays out a provocative future for human space travel using nanotechnology, space sails, robotics, biomolecular engineering, and artificial intelligence”. In other words, we won’t get beyond...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
.... Apollo engineers are long since retired or dead, and with them their unique institutional knowledge of deep space human space travel. Arguably, China is conducting the current lunar race from a better operational position than the US, especially...
16 January 2022
NASA Space Shuttle Discovery STS-31
Regular readers of ROOM may remember my article on “Lego’s replica space programme” [issue #24, 2020], in which I suggested “that icon of human space travel, the Space Shuttle”, as the next space-related Lego model. Little did I know it was already ...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... approved (probably for commercial, lack-of-saleability reasons). It could, however, be time to consider that icon of human space travel, the Space Shuttle, as it drifts further into the mists of history and rose-tinted recollection. About the author...
