March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
... and violent as Game of Thrones. Meanwhile, there is much work to be done before the high-tech future is secure. In space travel in particular, the key focal points must be on full and rapid reusability, thus allowing rockets and spacecraft...
November 2018
Being human in space
... our existence on Earth and in the universe. Understanding the human condition is essential for future long-distance space travel. We are human and humans seem to have built-in flaws. In various isolation experiments, where a small group of people...
April 2025
Catapult to orbit - will David finally defeat Goliath?
... up to Mach 4.2 and, although that is a long way from orbital velocity, the potential to transform the economics of space travel remains. About the author Steven Cutts is a doctor, film producer and science writer based in Norwich. He studied ...
October 2017
Third quarter phenomenon - the psychology of time in space
... be an oversight Consider a small crew of five or six people living and working together in a capsule travelling to Mars, millions of miles into the darkness of space. The crew will likely be the first to experience the so-called ‘Earth out of view...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
... challenge and set about developing a suite of bioscience applications that would help propel humans into deep space travel. The group committed itself to the goal of developing an alternative pathway, one that would leverage biology itself...
August 2019
The next us – our evolution in deep space
... who have the ‘right stuff’ must manage their own capacity for being human. Commercial space is bringing the opportunity for space travel to become a part of everyday life and, in the future, will be as common as our current air...
