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...
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...
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...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
...during the long flight period. To protect the Mars travellers, heavy shielding via ‘storm shelters’ will be needed...from what others might consider a terrible situation or circumstance. Space travel might suit and even benefit a selected few more than ...
22 June 2020
Virgin Galactic announces an agreement with NASA for private orbital spaceflight to the ISS
... spaceflight training experience, Virgin Galactic believes it can provide an unparalleled, personalised customer experience for orbital space travel. NASA is seeing greater demand for use of the ISS for scientific and technological research and...
