June 2022
Pandemic parallels
... systems will not protect people from the very real mental health challenges faced by long-distance space travellers. The space industry should study success rates of initiatives set up to counter the pandemic’s impact and incorporate them...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... as other necessary base materials. Transporting from Earth involves significant logistical challenges due to the constraints of space travel, particularly payload weight and volume limitations. Today’s launch vehicles have strict payload limits. For...
02 February 2018
How a year in space affects your body
...cells regulate physiological processes) of each twin, revealed that space travel causes an increase in methylation, the process of turning ...The study conducted by Mason and team into how space travel can influence chemical changes in RNA and DNA, ...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... Branson’s venture Virgin Galactic is another example of a commercial foray into what was previously a governmental monopoly on space travel and exploration. Seeing that physical satellite size was shrinking, Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... inquiry that needs attention. It is argued, however, that the need for embedding environmental ethics within space travel to ensure continued sustainable access to space presents the single most pressing area of attention given the dramatic increase...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... dysrhythmias, life-support systems, mental health, and public health. Radiation Radiation is a major challenge for human space travel. Away from Earth’s protective magnetic field, two key types of radiation are of concern: solar particle events...
