May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
... reality laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas: he is using a VR headset to learn how to operate his spacesuit’s SAFER emergency pack. Likewise, NASA astronaut and Expedition 59 flight engineer Christina Koch (Figure 3) used...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
... new Martians, the Sun is an unnerving sight, strangely shrunken, with no warmth as far as it’s possible to tell from inside a spacesuit or habitat. There are two hours of Martian daylight remaining. The shadows are lengthening as night-time creeps...
November 2020
Space medicine and terrestrial health care
... the effects on the human body of a reformulated gas environment in order to improve the ambient air in spacecraft and spacesuits. Indeed, back in the 1970s, scientists made an in-depth study of replacing spacecraft air with an oxygen-helium mixture...
January 2021
Medical professionals and long-duration spaceflight
...-12 spacecraft commander. The mission was designed to test the modified Soyuz spacecraft and new Sokol rescue spacesuits. In 1984, Oleg Atkov played a part in a mission to the Salyut-7 space station, where he spent 237 days. His...
April 2021
Managing the Moon - a model for engaging with planetary environments
...‘mutual flourishing’. Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt retrieves lunar samples during his December 1972 mission, his spacesuit dirtied by clinging lunar dust. Lunar trustees In New Zealand, the governance of natural features with legal personhood...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan. Astronaut Drew Feustel behind the wheel of a NASCAR racing vehicle. Developments in spacesuit technology have seen adoption in auto racing. In the 2021 NASCAR season, several drivers are wearing undergarments...
