May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
... to extended communication opportunities with family and friends, and opportunities to interact with media. However, deep space travel and remote bases pose new challenges, such as absence of resupply missions, communication delays, increase of crew...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
... and refining technical textiles for specific functions that solve special challenges during planetary explorations and space travel. Parachutes, insulation blankets and even computer memory are a few applications of technical textiles that keep both...
May 2025
Mythologies of Outer Space - A new perspective on the final frontier
... toward the cosmos. She highlights forgotten works that challenge mainstream narratives, revealing alternative visions of space travel that prioritise cooperation over conquest. In an interesting final reflection, Forlini exclaims: “Every new way...
30 October 2017
Virgin Group and Saudi Arabia announce $1 billion deal
... the company. Nonetheless, Virgin will still retain the majority interest in the three space companies. PIF is headed by the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salam Al-Saud who is... programme for trans-continental point-to-point space travel,” said Branson.
29 March 2018
Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars
... words of a surprisingly brief cover-blurb, the author “lays out a provocative future for human space travel using nanotechnology, space sails, robotics, biomolecular engineering, and artificial intelligence”. In other words, we won’t get beyond Mars...
17 November 2020
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts arrive at the ISS
... Crew Programme, a route that NASA foresees as a way to reduce the cost of going to space. As such the launch is seen as the beginning of a new era in space travel; it also ends the reliance on the US using Russian rockets to get their astronauts...
