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 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-...
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...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... not spill over into superpower disputes between the USSR and the USA. As many of the early space travellers were military test pilots, Article V of the Treaty places a duty on signatory states to both rescue and return...
September 2024
Hypersonics and the route to orbit
... by passion and enthusiasm. “We are driven by a mission to eliminate barriers to hypersonic flight and turn affordable space travel into a reality”, he says. “The company’s fundamental goal is to push the boundaries of sustainable hypersonic flight...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
... with via existing legal and regulatory regimes. The unique human habitat of a spacecraft used for interplanetary space travel means inevitably that there would need to be fresh consideration of any crew code of conduct, even if the basic...
