27 November 2020
Russia's Energia says ISS is close to ruin, nation should build its own space station instead
... media as an indirect suggestion by the Flight Director that RSC Energia wanted to terminate the countries participation in the International Space Station programme. This was later renounced by the Roscosmos Press Service who were forced to issue...
11 February 2019
Today marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2019
... United Nations, partners worldwide, women and girls will mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Why does it matter? In a message for the International Day for Women and Girls in Science, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... be established through the extraterritorial reach of human rights values and principles. This has been established under international customary law – the UN Charter, the UDHR, and the Articles of State Responsibility – which provide that when...
September 2023
Space sustainability and the global commons
... by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means but it leaves it to the Moon Agreement to set out an International Regime for commercial uses of resources from the Moon and other celestial bodies. A level playing field...
February 2016
Innovations in human astronautics
.... It’s difficult to say what fate awaits the ISS after 2024 - everything depends on the decisions made by the international partners. Based on today’s needs and forecasts, it is an educated guess that the orbital station will remain as a laboratory...
November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
... EDEN ISS consortium defined six objectives: Manufacturing a space analogue mobile test facility Integration and test of an International Standard Payload Rack plant cultivation system for future tests on-board ISS and a Future Exploration Greenhouse...
