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...
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...
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...
May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
... and data obtained on root moisture levels during these space experiments provided the necessary information to allow astronauts to ...that can become part of life support systems for future space crews. The authors would like to extend their thanks to...
