18 July 2017
Overcoming the challenges of long term space travel
...overcome some significant engineering challenges. Increasingly, those looking to begin work in the budding field of space colonisation are taking advantage of online civil engineering degree programmes like those offered by Ohio University. Of course...
June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
... base would cost $35 billion to construct and $7.35 billion a year to maintain. It is clear therefore that until the cost of space access is lowered the situation with building a base on the Moon is unlikely to change. Considering the current level...
30 March 2020
Study shows astronaut urine could help build moon bases
...few days to collect samples is no longer the ambition of space agencies and private companies alike. The new target is to build...in this technique as a way of achieving their off-world colonising ambitions, by using regolith – the layer of loose dusty ...
May 2020
Time to discuss regulations for future interplanetary trade
... each will be required and that the process of colonising Mars will take some 40 to 100 years from... series of posters originally commissioned by NASA for an exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor’s Complex. As part of NASA’s Journey to Mars, they...
April 2020
Evolutionary lessons for an interplanetary future
... Earth or whether we develop long-term human settlements in space. People scattered across the solar system, much like the animals... had come into existence because their ancestors had colonised the remote archipelago, become isolated, and evolved into...
June 2022
Pandemic parallels
... environmental variety. In their paper, ‘Microcosmic Getaways Aboard Space Habitats’ researchers Susmita Mohanty and Barbara Imhof found that... health challenges faced by long-distance space travellers. The space industry should study success rates of ...
