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Understanding isolation’s effects on regular people, rather than those certified to have ‘the right stuff,’ will help prepare us for the future, whether another pandemic or interplanetary space travel.
Governments and corporations must get serious about the legal, technical, economic, social and ethical implications of a potential space-based resource economy.
Delay has turned space mission ExoMars2020 into ExoMars2022.
The Earth and the Moon were long thought to be virtually identical in composition. Now we know they are not.
The InSights mission is producing the first evidence-based picture of Mars’s interior.
Sex technologies and ‘erobots’ could help address issues related to human desire, and physical and emotional needs of astronauts in space.
In preparation for possible future missions to Mars, scientists figure out how to quickly and efficiently measure brain performance and mental fatigue.
The Earth may be crawling with undiscovered creatures with a different biochemistry to life as we know it.
From alien life to human spaceflight, 2020 may deliver some exciting news.
The opportunities in space are limitless. But without a sustainable approach to the space industry, our ability to exploit them won’t be.
Musk’s plans have potentially dire consequences for alien life, astronauts and the environment.
The Canadian Long Range Plan 2020 for astronomy and astrophysics builds on Canadian research’s previous success to extend Canada’s role.
Current plans for lunar exploration may end up destroying ancient, genetic samples from Earth that have ended up on the moon.
It’s established Mars was once a planet with surface-level water. So with multiple MARS missions starting next year, the key to seeking out martian life may instead lie in the contents of its ‘dust’.
NASA and the European Space Agency are planning a series of lunar missions using tiny ‘CubeSats’ to map the moon for resources.
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission just got the green light - here’s what it could achieve.
By 2069, we could be seeing the start of regular journeys from the moon to Mars.
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The fifth episode of the To the moon and beyond podcast series explores where we will be travelling in 2069.
Any base on the moon would need very thick walls.
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science and Planetary Exploration, University of Stirling
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Emeritus Professor of International Law, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in Astronomy, Nottingham Trent University
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Researcher, Air and Space Law, McGill University
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Professor of Planetary Science, University of Leicester
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Senior Lecturer in Space Systems Engineering, University of Glasgow
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Research Fellow/Reader in Planetary Physics, Lancaster University
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Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria and Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne, Museums Victoria Research Institute
