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...
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...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
...Venus (Figure 1). The Japanese mission was called IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun). In ... sailing called Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel. His latest novel, On to the Asteroid, was released by Baen...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... of this discussion and include consideration of the physical and psychological issues facing crewmembers embarking on interplanetary travel.6 Related to this are the values underpinning human exploration and colonization: questions of the conditions...
