26 March 2018
Traveler program gets a boost with NanoRacks
... announcing a partnership with NanoRacks LLC, to focus on the development of the company’s Near Space Traveler program outside of China. The Traveler is a 2.5 metre cabin attached to a giant helium-filled balloon which is around 40 metres in diameter...
October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
...for. Just as air travel still poses a degree of apprehension for some people, so space travel may provide emotional and...response. Only by working together will the global space and disaster management communities persuade governments and supra-...
13 April 2018
Air breathing rocket gets significant funding boost
... UK-based company. As Reaction Engines unlocks advanced propulsion that could change the future of air and space travel, we expect to leverage their revolutionary technology to support Boeing’s pursuit of hypersonic flight,” says Steve Nordlund, Vice...
10 December 2018
First far side of the Moon mission underway
.... The craft however is not destined to spend years in space travelling to some distant far off planet, instead the robotic vehicle ..., but since then, less than a handful of space-borne ships have surveyed this mysterious, mountainous half that...
October 2015
Eating in space: from Michelin-starred chefs to self-sufficiency
... strength, the food consumed plays a crucial role too, mitigating and protecting against many of the effects of space travel. However, a single-minded focus on nutritional value isn’t enough: inconvenient as it may be, food needs to be palatable and...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
.... The humans that would go out there would be different. Modified, enhanced, resilient and protected in a way that space travellers had thus far not been. A human voyage to Jupiter and its remarkable moons, to Saturn’s moon Titan...
