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...
23 December 2019
Starliner lands successfully despite problems during inaugural flight
... alignments using its navigation system Tested Starliner’s NASA Docking System Validated all environment control and life support systems Completed a positive command uplink between the International Space Station and Starliner “Today’s successful...
June 2015
The real Interstellar: space travel theories from Tsiolkovsky to wormholes
..., are essential to making a viable interstellar craft. The study of thermonuclear synthesis fits here, as do studies of closed life support systems and the search for and study of exoplanets. Entire fields of knowledge have grown out of the ...
February 2019
The challenge of procreation for future off-world settlers
... has all of the heavier components in the bottom section - water tanks, battery packs, propulsion systems and life support. The middle section might be living and work quarters, and the upper level open for exercise...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
... and Zvezda, but used modern construction techniques like 3D printing and took advantage of China’s experiments in closed life support systems developed by Moscow-educated Liu Hong in the Yuegong ‘lunar palaces’. China too, declared its interest...
