August 2020
Interplanetary spaceflight and restorative justice
...and friends, because real-time interaction will be impossible with anyone but other crew members. The journey to Mars is likely to take around nine months, which is a considerable period of time to be living alongside a small group of people in close...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... technologies while remaining in close proximity to Earth. NASA has identified a list of technologies it deems essential for a journey to Mars which include - ground operations, a heavy-launch vehicle, crew capsule, a deep-space transit vehicle with...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... problems himself. And he’s not trying to compete with NASA. Clearly his plans conflict with NASA’s existing ‘Journey to Mars’ but that programme is still quite vague at present. NASA is not a monolithic entity and I think it must be assumed...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
.../2015/09/2016-could-be-the-year-space-tourism-takes-off/ 2 See, for example, NASA ‘Journey to Mars’ program, available at: http://www.nasa.gov/content/nasas-journey-to-mars 3 ‘Elon Musk provides new details on his ‘mind blowing; mission...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... a moment of weightlessness in every jump for joy and in between every step we take. NASA’s ‘Explorers wanted on the journey to Mars’ poster, which encourages a different view of exploration. See ‘Space for art’, page 93. Apart from the thrill...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
...project. NASA career radiation exposure limits. A seven-day journey to the Moon would give a dose of about 11...amount of time to accomplish habitat construction. Conversely, a six-month journey to Mars will give a dose of about 324 mSv and, assuming an...
