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...
10 October 2016
Risk of chronic dementia for astronauts heading to Mars
... to a range of potential central nervous system complications that can occur during and persist long after actual space travel - such as various performance decrements, memory deficits, anxiety, depression and impaired decision-making. Many of these...
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, ...
15 January 2021
Orion now ready for its Moon mission later this year
... exploration vehicle that will one day carry astronauts to space, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during the space travel, and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities. Orion is equipped with a European-built...
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...
