April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
... set new or higher criteria for valuable offspring, and may evolve to favour the preservation of personal and physiological traits more suitable to Martian residents.” Now if, say, we were talking about humans marooned on a small island for...
October 2025
Investigating the hidden effects of zero gravity on astronaut vision
... to detect statistically significant ophthalmological changes. Thirdly, astronauts typically possess robust constitutions and significant physiological reserves, allowing them to compensate for the negative effects of short term missions during the...
24 February 2016
Final interview for Scott Kelly tomorrow before his return to Earth
... Human Research Program, who has a doctoral degree in physiology and biophysics. One-year mission crew members Scott Kelly...space and has thus focused on four areas: human physiology, behavioural health, microbiology/microbiome, and molecular or -omics...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... of themselves, and indeed space agencies have already started to conduct research into both the psychological and physiological impact of space travel upon human beings7. This issue of environmentalism and awareness of the fragility of the space...
February 2016
A Moon of Their Own
... in the course of the Luna-2015 project broadly cover three main research categories: psychological and psycho-physiological research; immune system and metabolism research; sanitation, hygiene, and microbiological research. A special virtual reality...
February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
..., where the effects of gravity are shut down. It’s interesting not only for scientists who do research in human physiology and in life sciences, but also in combustion, materials and fluid science. So, I spent a lot of my 200 days up there...
