July 2019
Settling the final frontier
..., as we speak.” NASA studies from the 1970s were some of the earliest comprehensive work on space colonies. This vintage illustration shows a wheel-shaped colony that creates artificial gravity by spinning. But Rosen has one caveat regarding the...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... body of research concerning the psychological health of astronauts while in space. Not all of it will be applicable to a Mars colony but some lessons from Earth orbiting space stations can be applied. NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg in the Cupola...
20 July 2020
Hope launch heralds ambitious future space plans
...the red planet. The Hope probe took off from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center on July 19 and arrives at its destination in February ... of a potential site, said the company’s Chief Space Officer George Whitesides, who was CEO until stepping into...
May 2021
Visions of beating gravity
.... I want to bring people, organisations and companies into contact with each other to continue working on my dream – creating space colonies with both weightlessness and artificial gravity – that will create the environment where I (and others with...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
Building a space colony that will protect and sustain a population of hundreds or ...people to move and live away from Earth in orbiting colonies or on the Moon or Mars, exposure to space radiation will be a serious hazard. Scientists and engineers ...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... for Mars. The analogue of the city is a rotating toroidal structure of an orbital colony. Fig. 5. A toroidal city with artificial gravity. Expanding across space It is possible to send spaceships to Mars in a large and compact group, arranging them...
