19 March 2021
NASA conducts successful test of its massive SLS Moon rocket
... systems, propulsion systems, and hydraulic systems. “Today is a great day for NASA, Stennis and this nation’s human space exploration program. This final test in the Green Run series represents a major milestone for this nation’s return...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
.../neo/pdc_paper.html, April 2009. 9 Brophy et al, “Synergies of Robotic Asteroid Redirection Technologies and Human Space Exploration”, IAC paper 14.A5.3-B3.6.7, 65th International Astronautical Congress, Toronto, Canada, October 2014. Michele Gates
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
... technologies.17 These and other ‘Big Problem’ areas on Earth include some interesting intersections with the needs of human space exploration and development. Two of these, the availability and processing of water for propellant, but also for life...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... for a variety of missions. The primary purpose of SLS is to enable a new era of human space exploration unlike any before it. As NASA continues to mature plans for deep space exploration, SLS and Orion are crucial assets in that journey. The first...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
... sensors will build and extend this knowledge base. Since crew health and human system research and development are critical to enabling human space exploration, physiological research often takes a majority of the science time for crews onboard...
August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
... quantifying the impact of any public announcement regarding evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. As an anthropologist who researches human space exploration, I wondered, could the Drake Equation and the Rio Scale be taken one step further? Can...
