November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
... would be pressurised with air, passengers can move freely between the cylinders without the need for a spacesuit. A megasatellite featuring cylinder structures, each of which would be over 10 km (6 miles) long. Construction When mining Ceres...
February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
... work on the surface of the Moon (and eventually on Mars), special food mixtures for food intake inside a spacesuit must also be in place. Mars missions will require developing products with a shelf-life of 3-5 years and allow...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
... Mars could actually be, science writer Ross Andersen explains, “if you were to stroll onto its surface without a spacesuit, your eyes and skin would peel away like sheets of burning paper, and your blood would...
12 October 2015
2,000 Delegates Arrive in Jerusalem for Space Industry's Premier Annual Event
... Foundation, which will promote interest in space education among Israeli youth. The foundation presented three original spacesuits that will travel among Israeli schools. Heinlein Foundation representative Hart Dola said, “We hope that we will...
24 March 2016
Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Successfully Launched
... Earth's atmosphere); the Strata-I experiment (exploring regolith properties in microgravity and regolith interaction with spacecraft and spacesuit materials); the Gecko Gripper study (testing a gecko-inspired adhesive gripping device that can stick...
07 February 2018
Musk sets pace in the race to Mars
... sports car built by his other company, Tesla. Strapped inside the car was a dummy wearing a SpaceX spacesuit and soon after launch social media was alive with pictures of the car in orbit around Earth...
