September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
ESA channels around eight per cent of its budget into direct technology research and development, an activity mandated in the agency’s founding convention. ESA’s Directorate of Technical and Quality Management runs a suite of technology programmes ...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... professional. She works as an intern in the Office of International and Interagency Relations at NASA, headquarters in Washington DC. The article is drawn from her master’s thesis, which received highest honours, and does not reflect official views...
October 2016
Project MOONWALK
he scientific focus of MOONWALK was to evaluate new technologies for the interaction of astronauts with helper robots on planetary surfaces. Between 2013 and 2016, a number of technologies and technical systems were demonstrated and tested in two ...
September 2016
Art, Space & Inspiration.
My guess is that anyone reading ROOM will agree that spaceflight and all that goes along with it is inspirational. This inspiration presents itself in so many ways - inspiring children to pursue an education and careers in STEM fields, inspiring ...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
For many of you reading this it was probably a fascination with the night sky or the dream of travelling in space that ultimately brought you into the space sector. And, while I hope to go into space one day, it was the call of the unknown that ...
March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
... views, aims, and expectations? These are indeed ‘grand’ questions but they will need to be answered. In this article I have taken the Falcon 9 SpaceX project as an illustrative example but I hope that the reader must have...
