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...
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...
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...
02 February 2018
How a year in space affects your body
... conducted by NASA to improve our knowledge on the medical, psychological and biomedical challenges faced by astronauts during long-duration spaceflight. What was different about this study was that Scott’s twin brother Mark would be used as a ground...
04 November 2025
IAC 2025 heralds new era in space sustainability
... nearly 200 booths. Topics ranged from Indigenous knowledge in space, artificial intelligence applications, to future human long-duration spaceflight. Across sessions, the theme “Sustainable Space: Resilient Earth” took center stage, expanding beyond...
