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...
October 2025
What future for UK human spaceflight?
...-based spaceflight services company, and Italian luxury fashion house Prada revealed the outer layer of the spacesuit to be worn on NASA’s first Artemis mission to land humans on the lunar surface during IAC 2024 in Milan, Italy...
April 2026
Art, imagination and the human spirit
... apparatus from a bygone space programme, left to rust. It actually made me feel calm. Study based on photos of prototype spacesuits. The artist’s take on this particular design is that it is stylish but probably very claustrophobic. Twenty-two years...
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...
