November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
... inside portion closest to the heat shield. Active shielding Engineers are working on several ways to protect future space crews or colonists from very high energy galactic radiation. One method that could be very useful is generating a powerful...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... achievable – including currently mature and rapidly maturing programmes and systems. Orion, the world’s only deep-space crew spacecraft, is the core of the Mars Base Camp vehicle. Its capabilities include long duration, independent operation...
13 November 2020
NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission gets ready for launch tomorrow
...not stop making sure every flight, including NASA’s Space Crew-1 mission, will be approached with the same ...as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX's crew transportation system. Its occupants, veteran space-visitors Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, made...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
...radiation protection is a design driver of the Orion spacecraft and it includes a storm shelter as a method to protect crew Space crews travelling to the Moon or Mars face three sources of naturally occurring radiation which can threaten their health...
27 January 2021
Axiom Space unveils crew for first private ISS mission
... Suffredini said. “This is just the first of several Axiom Space crews whose private missions to the International Space Station will truly inaugurate an expansive future for humans in space – and make a meaningful difference in the world when they...
June 2015
Training space tourists to fly to the ISS at the Gagarin Centre
... main organisational and methodological challenges of training non-professional cosmonauts involve selecting members of a particular space crew, planning the training, preparing source data for training, identifying the types and levels of training...
