01 October 2019
Space Exploration: past, present & future
... publishers put on the back cover! In reality, this is a well-written collection of essays on how ‘space exploration’ (including space science and space technology) has impacted the world and will continue to in the future. It is, however, a strange...
24 April 2018
Impossible Horizon: The Essence of Space Exploration
... true. In addition to fulfilling that role, Jacques Arnould has written and edited a number of books on the ethics of space exploration and presented many papers at academic conferences. This compact book is his latest epistle in a continuing drive...
30 March 2021
The Value of Science in Space Exploration
... the title of this book: ‘well, of course science has a value in space exploration; science is what it all began with, isn’t it?’. But we techies have to remember that ‘space exploration’ (in the broadest sense of the term) is now more than 60 years...
September 2017
Engaging the private sector in space exploration
... of new technologies and the delivery of scientific payloads to the Moon, leading the way for a future of prolonged space exploration. The private spacecraft would be able to deliver up to 100 kg payload to the lunar surface with each flight. About...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... (LEO) and will send NASA’s new Orion crew vehicle into lunar orbit on the deep space exploration system’s first mission, Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), scheduled for 2019. Largely a test flight, EM-1 will verify and validate new systems...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... lunar flights and eventually round-trips to Mars. It is the first human-rated spacecraft for beyond-LEO space exploration since the Apollo programme. Crew radiation protection is a design driver of the Orion spacecraft and it includes a storm...
