September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
... is fighting for their life and inviting them to contribute their artwork to a suit that is going to be worn by an astronaut in space! Gordon Andrews (ISS Programme Comms), Nicole Stott (Artist/ Astronaut), Ian Cion (MD Anderson Cancer Center Arts...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... police’ exist with zero tolerance for the unauthorised possession of a controlled space resource The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is a space museum that displays space artefacts, many of which are on loan from NASA. Following the resignation...
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
...are the implementations. As the commercial community realises and upgrades components or modules in use by state-of-the-art space systems, those same upgraded components will require less effort to integrate than would an utterly proprietary solution...
May 2021
Forecasting space-weather effects on Earth
...these changes can trigger a sudden explosion of electromagnetic energy, called a solar flare, which releases radiation into space. Sometimes, this release is accompanied by an ejection of plasma (hot clouds of ionised gas) from its surface. These are...
August 2021
Space research in embryology
... of not only technical but also medical issues, which means that including medical specialists on long-term space missions is a key prerequisite. Ultimately, if the human race is to resettle itself elsewhere in the universe, research into maintaining...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
... contribute to scientific advances was stunted by the lack of imagination around them. Veterok and Ugolyok, launched into space on 22 February 1966 aboard the Cosmos-110 biosatellite, pictured at the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, USSR...
