02 November 2020
ISS marks 20 years of humans on board
... space station is an integral part of space exploration," López-Alegría said. "We still haven't been able to build reliable life-support systems for a lengthy mission to Mars, such as carbon dioxide scrubbers to keep air breathable for long periods...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... under the topmost layers of the Moon’s surface, potentially yielding material for rocket propellant and life support supplies The environment is characterised by a level of political risk. As Peter Marquez, Vice President for Global Engagement...
October 2017
Third quarter phenomenon - the psychology of time in space
...to many of the same stressors as those experienced by astronauts in space such as threats of danger, limited habitability and life support, and long periods of monotony and confinement. Earth-based space analogues typically include Antarctic research...
November 2019
Space for Art – Reflections on the Moon
... moons would reveal more and might hold the secret to life in our outer solar system. It was this idea that...of who and where we all are together on this colourful, life-supporting planet in the otherwise, seemingly endless, blackness of space.” Stott...
February 2022
A new legal system for space
... this scenario on a commercial spaceflight: an English woman falls ill over Russia, a Chinese doctor tries to administer life support but gets into a dispute with an American physician trying to deliver an intravenous drip, which causes the captain...
February 2016
Protecting Earth from cosmic disasters
...of the explosion: affected area, scale of destruction and loss of life. The results of the assessment in this case can be seen...personnel, emergency and technical crew, mechanical equipment and life-support systems can be determined. Thus, for the ...
