February 2022
A new legal system for space
... orbit, delivered astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the ISS on 31 May 2020, opening a new era in human spaceflight. Courts of the future I hope to establish a system that is founded on the principle that problems can be resolved without...
19 June 2020
US firm offers flights to edge-of-space under high-tech balloon
...our global biosphere,” adds Poynter, who specifies that Neptune’s commercial human spaceflight launches are regulated by the FAA Office of Commercial Spaceflight. The human space flight company plans to launch from the iconic Shuttle Landing Facility...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
...likely because the technologies in question were developed for government needs and not in response to market demand. In human spaceflight, this type of thinking was behind the founding of SpaceX, started by Elon Musk with an initial goal of reducing...
August 2018
UAE’s ambitious plans for space sector growth
... Mars When you look at space exploration, human spaceflight is the pinnacle. Satellites, probes and scientific ...can be a useful contributing player to help further the advancement of human spaceflight. Obviously we don’t want to just do our own thing ...
January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
... known as ‘Trash to Gas’. The idea is to develop space technologies to convert trash and other waste materials from human spaceflight into high-value products, which might include propellants or power system fuels in addition to life support oxygen...
02 August 2020
SpaceX’s historic Demo-2 mission ends with a splash
... crew spacecraft, returning from the International Space Station to complete a test flight that marks a new era in human spaceflight. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, carrying Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, splashed down under parachutes in the Gulf...
