June 2016
A new microgravity research facility for Central Texas and beyond
... regional context the Baylor University drop tower would be the only facility providing a high quality microgravity environment in the 1.5 to 2 seconds range within about three hours of flight time. The concept of the Baylor University drop...
November 2018
Being human in space
... tools could be considered and developed. Virtual reality, augmented reality and sensory suits could mimic a sensory environment and might be produced based on personal life experiences and psychological anchors. Proposing to mimic Earth and favoured...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
...the impact of the constellation on astronomical observations. This, however, presupposes that NEPA, which concentrates on the ‘human environment’, applies to outer space. The only time that space operations have had to follow NEPA is when considering...
November 2020
Space medicine and terrestrial health care
... the Covid-19 pandemic, the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) made recommendations to prevent the impact of the micro-environment on the human locomotion system Space medicine places a high emphasis on researching the effects on the human body...
June 2021
Autonomous robots in space
... to operate remotely controlled robotic devices. Right: 2019, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano navigates through a computer-generated environment to learn the route he might take outside the Space Station on a spacewalk, helping him to take decisions and...
February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
... the 1960s, Russian specialists have been engaged in the development of food and rations for nutrition in a spaceflight environment. Efforts in this field have generated a considerable amount of interest among our foreign colleagues, which has been...
