July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
... astronauts in, too? GUPTA Correct. For everything. For all the things that Janet said, from the microgravity science and all those pieces, as well as putting up astronauts. It’s like we’re on the verge of commercialisation but still at the...
15 September 2026
Tonne-scale space factory planned for 2028
...’s Space Rider programme. Nicolas Gaume, co-founder and CEO of Space Cargo Unlimited, says the challenge facing microgravity manufacturing is increasingly one of commercial access and scale rather than scientific feasibility. “For more than 30 years...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
...low Earth orbit (LEO), which can only support research in microgravity, not partial gravity. Interestingly, there is little to no ...to mitigate bone loss and muscle atrophy is critical in microgravity. While those symptoms may be less severe in the ...
October 2024
Off-Earth risks to the human skeleton
... not yet defined a true-to-fact connection between the initially low BMD and its loss value in microgravity, so it is currently impossible to calculate whether the skeleton of anyone having low BMD will approach a critical level of demineralisation...
April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
...’ll experience morning sickness. And speaking of the privileges of giving life, remember that their bones will be weakened in microgravity and perhaps also under only partial Earth gravity. A serious open question is whether birthing is safe with...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
... to date some 51 algae experiments have flown in space, the effects of the space environment, especially radiation and microgravity, are still not completely known. Given the high number of failures, it shows how difficult it is to implement an algal...
