20 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Asks and Answers: If Space is So Hard, Why Should We Go there?
... at How Science Fiction Inspires Space Science 3D Printing Our Future in Space and on Earth How to Make Intelligent Robots That Understand the World Aspire to Inspire Comparing Notes: Behind the Scenes of Space Travel Space Science Sound System The...
16 January 2022
NASA Space Shuttle Discovery STS-31
Regular readers of ROOM may remember my article on “Lego’s replica space programme” [issue #24, 2020], in which I suggested “that icon of human space travel, the Space Shuttle”, as the next space-related Lego model. Little did I know it was already ...
June 2021
How time perception as a spaceflight stress indicator
... to fill, so one only needs to imagine what it would be like to manage an excess of free time during years of space travel to appreciate the importance of this work. Cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov trains to use an external telerobotic from inside the...
June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
... operations requires perfect execution every time. No one wants to risk a mission due to buggy software. Unforgiving Space travel is a complex, unforgiving activity. The stresses of launch simply to get into orbit, wild temperature variations once...
