29 July 2020
NASA announces astronauts to fly on SpaceX Crew-2 mission to ISS
... in 108 countries. The station is a critical testbed for NASA to understand and overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight. As commercial companies focus on providing human transportation services to and from low-Earth orbit, NASA is free...
19 October 2015
Scott Kelly, Mikhail Kornienko, long-duration spaceflight and the human body
...summary of what we already know about the effects of long-term spaceflight can be found on the National Space Biomedical Research ...more innovative technology that will offset the effects of long spaceflight should we ever hope to set foot on Mars...
24 September 2025
Cybersecurity, cosmic weather and Europa’s secrets
... from Russian researchers Yuri Bubeev, Alexander Smoleevsky and Olga Manko on the biomedical mystery of how long-duration spaceflight affects astronaut vision. As always, ROOM’s Space Science and Space Lounge sections bring conceptual and...
01 April 2020
JAXA and NASA astronauts announced for first operational Crew Dragon flight
...the orbital outpost. The station is a critical testbed for NASA to understand and overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight. As commercial companies focus on providing human transportation services to and from low-Earth orbit, NASA is free...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... programmes to President Kennedy’s objective. Thus Gemini was designed to prepare for Apollo: docking two spacecraft, long duration spaceflight, spacewalks and rendezvousing in space. Unmanned probes to the Moon tested the consistency of its surface...
October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
...art, design, architecture and creative thinking. Given the potentially extensive confinement and isolation of long duration spaceflight and space habitation, interior design should include these natural patterns and proportions. Specifically designed...
