November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... 1957. The effects of low, or zero gravity, were nevertheless not studied much before the first human spaceflights. As human spaceflights developed with the exploration ambitions of different nations, research on the effects of exposure to space and...
March 2016
Time for European visionary goals
... marked the 55th anniversary of the first human spaceflight into Earth orbit. Those formative decades in...to new levels. Yuri Gagarin - the 55th anniversary of his historic spaceflight was celebrated on 12 April They looked into the future, well beyond...
February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
...Head of the European Space Policy Observatory at Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) in Brussels. She also served as Director of Human Spaceflight of the European Space Agency from 2008 to 2011, and Director of the Observation of the Universe at ASI from...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... Accountability Office (GAO) recently criticised NASA for continuing a dual hatting approach to operations and safety in its human spaceflight ESD (Exploration Systems and Development) programme which will transport crews to the Moon and beyond. Dual...
12 July 2019
NASA reassigns top leaders in Moon 2024 programme
..., NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has informed staff that key figures, including the widely respected director of human spaceflight Bill Gerstenmaier, will be replaced as part of a major shake-up at the agency. The move, which has come as a shock...
June 2021
Autonomous robots in space
...conducted at the University of Surrey, UK. Space science and human spaceflight were very much at the origin of the global space ... of space technologies. Today, the inherent challenges for humans in the space environment provide at least some of the...
