February 2018
Journey of inspiration
... checklist for becoming an astronaut, and that inspiration can come from so many different places. During my time in space, I was inspired by the wonderful mix of personality and professionalism of my crewmates and by the people who supported us even...
March 2018
Zero gravity and the human heart
..., heartbeat volume and heart size decrease between 15 - 20 percent. The thorax becomes shorter and wider, intercostal spaces become broader and the anteroposterior diameter increases. Central venous pressure, contrary to what has been hypothetically...
April 2020
Plasma Clipper - opening the age of sail, in space travel
... times higher than the power it took to energise the coils in the first place. Since high-speed space travel is primarily a power problem, getting a million-to-one payback on your power is worthy of serious attention. Interestingly, since the...
18 July 2017
Overcoming the challenges of long term space travel
... and represents a fine investment for any engineering-minded students. Then build the roads The future of space travel will, of course, depend heavily on our ability to effectively utilise it and devise traffic systems suitable for the...
31 December 2018
Foreword to Spaceflight: an illustrated bibliography of pre-1958 publications on rocketry and space travel
... is more rose-tinted than real!). The book also includes a “Russian Addendum” featuring 163 Russian-language space books followed by a section including books in eight other (European and Scandinavian) languages. As a whole, the volume concentrates...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... and looks forward to a technology that might just make it possible. The earliest science fiction story postulating space travel, albeit sarcastically, was ‘True Story’ written by Lucian of Samosata in the 2nd Century (Classical era). More serious...
