May 2022
Multinational training for interplanetary spaceflight crews
...a lack of familiar linguistic formulae, behavioural reactions and manners. In these cases, especially when communicating in extreme environments, there is a great danger that the meaning ascribed to the behaviour of a person from another culture does...
June 2022
Pandemic parallels
...given the abrupt and complete nature of the disruption. The measures necessary to negate space’s innately dangerous environment parallel the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, because the inherent level of risk is consistently on the cusp of rising...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... board Orion during Van Allen belt transit will be indicative of the shielding capability of AstroRad in the SPE environment even if no SPE occurs during the mission. AstroRad Selective Shielding - proprietary smart shielding that focuses protection...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
...and this is not uncommon, in particular in a campus-like environment, but after a few weeks more and more people show symptoms ... their own sake, does not protect unique solar system environments or historical sites, and does not protect Earth from man...
November 2019
Space kaleidoscope - towards a genuine multi-messenger exploration
... Moon and to venture even further, we should be asking: what image of humanity do we want to project onto new space environments? Is it a narrow picture or an inclusive one? What are the ethical and societal values that we want to identify with...
April 2020
Evolutionary lessons for an interplanetary future
.... Over time, this combination of mutation and natural selection causes populations in each island to adapt to its particular environment. Take the Galapagos tortoises, for example. On high islands with dense vegetation, the tortoises evolved dome...
