June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... with one of the asteroids when it passes the Earth and travel with it until it approaches the Red Planet. In one version...-protected, artificial gravity orbital stations near colonised planets. Space settlements on the Moon, Mars, Ceres, Titan and...
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...
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...
18 July 2017
Why the space programme needs civil engineers
... planets. As they get older, they realise that only a small minority of people becomes astronauts and that space travel isn’t what they once imagined. But many still want to work in the field. It’s exciting and there...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... spacefaring nations to many, from very little entrepreneurial activity to quite a lot. For years, the bar for space travel was very high - typified by a highly competitive astronaut selection process. Today, the only real barrier to direct...
January 2023
Producing food in space
... minimum amount and it excludes the mass of the water required. Since the expeditions could well be longer, space travellers will have to rely on having the means to grow food and process it en route. Several plants have already...
