October 2019
Reusability is key to expanding future space launch business
... (after Alan Shepard, the first American in space) and is designed to transport a crew of six people, or hundreds of kilogrammes of microgravity payload, into space and back to Earth. Our goal is to fly the first humans - our own astronauts...
December 2019
Human conception and childbirth in space
.... Risks in space Space is a hostile environment for most living creatures. The main risks concern radiation and microgravity. In space, the radiation environment is much more dangerous than on Earth, where we are protected by a 10 km-thick layer...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
..., it skews some of the results; no offence to the astronauts – it’s simply that their movements degrade the purity of the microgravity environment. The solutions discussed here are probably not the final solutions, but they represent the...
February 2020
Opportunity knocks for UK space industry
... Serena Auñón-Chancellor mixing protein crystal samples to help scientists understand how they work. Proteins crystallized in microgravity are often higher in quality than those grown on Earth and present opportunities for the development of new...
May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
...the recent ‘Vection’ study onboard the ISS to explore perception of distance, motion and orientation capabilities under microgravity conditions. Despite these examples, MR has never been introduced in space or analogue missions as an integral habitat...
July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
... a scientific payload that controlled air and liquid systems, to precise levels, allowing scientists to study plant growth in a microgravity environment. This system, the Biomass Production System (BPS), deployed onboard the Space Shuttle and then...
