24 August 2022
Moon mission's human-rated European Service Module is giant leap for ESA
... described ESA’s role in delivering the European Service Module (ESM) - which will provide vital propulsion and life supports systems - as “modest” compared to NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion crew vehicle. “Nevertheless, this...
10 January 2024
NASA announces delays to astronaut lunar missions
... with crew aboard the Orion spacecraft, the mission will test critical environmental control and life support systems required to support astronauts. NASA's testing to qualify components to keep the crew safe and ensure mission success has...
04 May 2017
GLEX 2017 Technical Programme
... Entering into Space and New Energy and Propulsion Technology Key Technology of Space Exploration Challenges of Life Support - Medical Support for Manned Space Exploration Values and New Models for Space Exploration Law Issues and Public...
06 September 2017
Biomedical engineering can lead to a career with NASA
... with the job of coming up with more advanced life-support machines to help astronauts to breathe for longer in space...recovery, trace contaminant control, and atmosphere revitalization. Exploration life research is another key area, and along with the...
24 April 2018
Impossible Horizon: The Essence of Space Exploration
... exploration’ and to place it in the context of humanity’s life on Earth…and, of course, beyond. In introducing his thesis..., discussion of aspects apparently far-removed from rocketry and life-support systems may seem pointless, at the very least a ...
01 October 2019
Where Once We Stood - Stories of the Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon
... a filmmaker to bring the somewhat prosaic transcripts to life, while maintaining technical accuracy and adding his own thoughtful...backing out of a narrow doorway, bum first, with his life support systems strapped to his back, is an undignified way to...
