June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
...and either not slow down sufficiently and be deflected into interplanetary space or crash on the surface of Mars. The ...rendezvous with one of the asteroids when it passes the Earth and travel with it until it approaches the Red Planet. In one version ...
February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
... long shelf-life that were as ready to be consumed as possible. This requirement is due to the fact that, on a real interplanetary spaceflight, food storage conditions and technical facilities for cooking will be rather limited. The rations developed...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
... intention to create an independent civilisation on Mars of 100,000 or even a million people by 2050… but a major issue for interplanetary travel is the repeated launching of significant amounts of mass from the Earth’s surface onto...
October 2025
Investigating the hidden effects of zero gravity on astronaut vision
As human spaceflight missions grow longer and ambitions for interplanetary travel move closer to reality, understanding the effects of microgravity on astronaut health becomes ever more critical. One of the ...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
... (LEO), this discussion will now look longer term and consider the issues relating to managing crime on interplanetary travel. Codes of conduct for space travellers may be appropriate for dealing with criminal activity amongst space tourists...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... – Stratosphere and Rocket Flight (Astronautics) (Pitman, 1935) by CG Philp, and Rockets Through Space: The Dawn of Interplanetary Travel (Allen and Unwin, 1936) by PE Cleator. Although many of these early rocketeers tended to be writers, they were...
