26 February 2021
Lunar levitation track system among new ideas funded by NASA
...director of early-stage innovations and partnerships within NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD). “We don’t expect them...Lake View Terrace, California : Making Soil for Space Habitats by Seeding Asteroids with Fungi. Charles Taylor, Langley...
26 February 2018
The New Gold Rush: the Riches of Space Beckon!
..., and risk issues such as orbital debris and cosmic hazards. He then moves on to more long-term space proposals including space habitats and colonies before a concluding chapter ‘Looking toward a more hopeful global society’. The author is, by his...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... and solar electric propulsion, collaboration with industry to develop deep space habitats, and initiating efforts to allow the private sector to add their own modules to ISS; advancing space science through NASA, NSF and the Department of Energy...
14 April 2021
SNC launches independent subsidiary to expand space interests
... Colorado, where it also completed its prototype of a space habitat. The Ozmens named former NASA astronaut Janet Kavandi, a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions, executive vice president of Space Systems in November 2020. Kavandi, who holds a PhD...
17 December 2019
Earth’s doomsday scenario
...homing in on the interconnected themes of the extraordinary science and technology required to support permanent space habitats and the first humans born in space. With around 150 specialist attendees from around the globe it was something of a niche...
June 2022
Pandemic parallels
...pressures that occur in small, isolated groups due to a lack of environmental variety. In their paper, ‘Microcosmic Getaways Aboard Space Habitats’ researchers Susmita Mohanty and Barbara Imhof found that beyond this, time fatigue, loss of motivation...
