January 2023
Asgardia expands its reach
...Asgardia’s primary mission - the birth of the first human child in space. The space nation is working towards an isolation experiment on the ground, simulating a year-long spaceflight involving several married couples of volunteers who would conceive...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... component in maintaining health and morale in these circumstances 34 ROOM Astronautics ©NASA Comparisons can be made with other isolated groups, such as nuclear submarine crews and Antarctic researchers. But deep space may be more akin to extreme...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... and evacuation were part of the design considerations. These will not be available on a future human mission to Mars. In isolation, addressing higher level needs becomes an important design driver. Figure 2 shows how relevant crew support systems...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
..., we saw that the reading of the helium pressure in the isolated section of the gas lines above the pressure regulator had dropped to... safe at this time, as the potential leak was isolated. However, the re-pressurisation planned for 2011, before the...
October 2017
Third quarter phenomenon - the psychology of time in space
...(Sandal, Vaernes Ursin, 1995). A typical day in isolation. The crew of six spent 520 days together in ...unique three-story habitat designed to serve as an analogue for isolation, confinement, and remote conditions in exploration scenarios. Despite the...
April 2020
Evolutionary lessons for an interplanetary future
...factor that makes this process happen so readily on islands is isolation. Any changes that affect birds on one of the Galapagos ...their ancestors had colonised the remote archipelago, become isolated, and evolved into new forms. Unlike finches and...
