January 2019
Space for Art – Love letter to Earth
... children who face difficulties and health issues in their young lives. When we think about space travel, many of us imagine rockets, stars and travelling to faraway as-yet unexplored places. In reality, we are also looking for the connection back...
February 2020
Investigation of the Coriolis effect in rotating space platforms
... platform, combined with the simultaneous rotation of the human’s head (active Coriolis Coupling). For the ‘space traveller’ inside the spaceship this may result in a severely restricting environment, where any head movement outside of the ...
08 February 2016
Comparing Notes: Behind the Scenes of Space Travel
... André Kuipers is the first Dutch ESA astronaut with two space missions to his name. His second mission was the longest spaceflight...ins and outs of space travel, spanning decades from the beginnings of human space flight to the state of things today.
October 2020
Microgravity and its effects on the human brain
... Understanding the full effects of spaceflight on the human body is essential to ensure successful and healthy outcomes for space travellers The human brain receives and processes information from sensory systems across the body, integrates this...
May 2019
Space for Art – Astronauts and artists
... reflect on all of the lessons we’ve learned from our Apollo travels to the Moon. These lessons are absolutely those of discovery, wonder...expression has been going on since the start of human space travel, by the people who have flown NASA and other ...
02 October 2019
First look at China's new spacecraft capable of deep-space travel
..., that would allow astronauts to travel to the Moon and other deep-space destinations. Looking a lot like ...a Saturn V-class super-heavy-lift rocket comparable in capacity to NASA’s Space Launch System – that will be capable of lifting 50 tons to a ...
