October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... members with each other and with technical equipment. Conflict and cooperation are researched, as is the influence of microgravity on social and cultural aspects of life aboard the ISS. This retrospective research helps to inform future habitat...
April 2026
Robotics is the future of space labour
... is building a free-flying dexterous robot which uses fan propulsion to fly through a station, essentially a drone for microgravity environments. The robot has two arms, allowing operators to actively control the robot to do grasping and manipulation...
February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... a variety of fields that are relevant for research in microgravity, which is, by the way, just a fancy term for... cells to test what happens to the differentiation of stem cells in microgravity. What happens to bones, what if I add a special nano-...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... erotica. About time, too.” Surely, space travellers, especially those on their honeymoon, will be inspired to make love in microgravity. Sex in space has remained a relatively unexplored area - or should we say undocumented? As for who had the first...
November 2018
Connecting and collaborating for innovation
... potential solutions might lie, ensuring that we drive technology to meet those aims. An example is the use of the microgravity environment to understand how the human body adapts to space, to gain fresh insight into earthbound conditions that...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
... as being a technology driver, the space environment is also a unique laboratory for life science studies. The microgravity and radiation environment of space, as well as more subtle effects such as different diurnal patterns, extends the parameters...
