February 2020
Surviving bacteria in space
..., which can result in the technical failure of life support systems such as water recycling units, radiators or even spacesuits. Such incidents were observed in the Salyut, Mir and Skylab stations and continue to be a challenging threat on board...
April 2020
Evolutionary lessons for an interplanetary future
...? Scientists at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, preparing for a hypothetical manned mission to Mars, must don spacesuit simulators any time they leave the habitat where they live. Life in a Martian colony will come...
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...
