March 2015
Sowing a new dream
.... I would like to end with a quote from one of my own space classes: “The space dream will never be weightless, and the science dream has endless energy.”
March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
... push not for a few minutes, like most engines, but rather for months or even years. In the weightless and frictionless conditions of spaceflight, the effect of this thrust can gradually build up to allow the spacecraft to achieve...
October 2015
Eating in space: from Michelin-starred chefs to self-sufficiency
... food seem less tasty and appealing. More importantly perhaps, as it’s far less easy to mitigate, microgravity and weightlessness makes fluids in the body shift to the head, which has a similar effect to blocked sinuses. This severely...
February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... niche market for affordable microgravity flights carrying science and technology experiments on short periods of weightless flight. Another potential spaceport user, though on an altogether different scale, is Reaction Engines’ Skylon spaceplane...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
.... Cultural and language differences did not create significant problems but the effects of cosmic radiation and weightlessness could obviously not be factored into such an experiment. NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Expedition 24 flight engineer...
March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
... human missions and the astronauts’ experiences. The microgravity effect, with the possibility to fly and move in weightlessness, and the possibility to look at our planet from an external point of view, are the two most innovative...
