September 2023
How microorganisms survive space travel
...terms of preparing medical and biological support for human interplanetary missions. This is because conditions in Earth orbit ...during the entire history of its ejection from Mars, interplanetary transit to Earth, and passage through the atmosphere....
August 2016
Rosetta overcomes major setback
... I, back in Darmstadt, called the mission control team members for a meeting in room D217, at the heart of the interplanetary missions control centre. It was a very difficult moment, similar to the one we had both experienced a few years...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
... accelerating particles were scattering between the converging solar wind structures, gaining energy with each bounce.. An interplanetary game of particle ping-pong drove SEPs into Earth’s high-latitude atmosphere, creating nuclear interactions whose...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
... the Daedalus study, the first detailed concept study for an interstellar probe, conducted in the 1970s by a British Interplanetary Society team [1]. The team estimated that using ICF fusion propulsion, velocities of about 10 percent of the speed...
February 2019
Reflections on the future human condition
...time to come, our ground to which we return from our interplanetary journeys, and even our eyes revert back to it after focusing.... Weightlessness and cosmic radiation, the duration of interplanetary trips using current (and even future) modes ...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... of Space (Penguin Press, 1931), was written by David Lasser, a founder and the first president of the American Interplanetary Society (later re-named the American Rocket Society, which exists today as the American Institute of Aeronautics and...
