September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
... in Moscow, which laid the foundation for multilateral planned research within the framework of the Soviet Interkosmos space programme. IBMP staff took an active part in international medical and biological research on the Salyut-6, Salyut-7 and Mir...
17 July 2018
Piercing the Horizon: the story of Visionary NASA Chief Tom Paine
... astronaut biographies but “too few critical works on the principal managers and bureaucrats” responsible for the US space programme. This biography traces Tom Paine’s life from his upbringing as a “Navy Brat” (his father had a “distinguished...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... them into terrestrial systems poses a number of challenges, linked to the characteristics of space systems and the space sector more widely, and also the way space programmes are traditionally perceived and managed. The sector has faced these...
February 2016
Innovations in human astronautics
... with its help, humanity will be able to take the next step in the development of human space programmes - to begin researching and exploring space beyond low Earth orbit. The Moon, asteroids that are close to Earth, and Mars...
September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
... returned to the Moon for 45 years. But do not forget how the missions of Apollo - and more recent space programmes - have changed our humanity and society in an irreversible way, perhaps in the process forcing us to accomplish not one...
November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
... lobbying by Mexican academics who recognised that Mexico needed an organisation responsible for conducting a national space programme The Mexican space agency (AEM - Agencia Espacial Mexicana) came into being after lobbying by Mexican academics who...
