Space Exploration

Interplanetary Contamination and Extraterrestrial Life

By Lauren Napier, Sebastian Hettrich on February 16, 2015

Interplanetary Contamination is the introduction of biological material from one planetary body (planet, moon, asteroid) to another. Biological... Read more →

Space Disasters

Space Disasters and Close Calls in Human Spaceflight

By Ramasamy Venugopal on February 13, 2015

Space disasters are failures of technology, design, and management leading to tragic loss of life. While fatal accidents such as the Columbia... Read more →

Space Policy

Throwing Dice in Space: The Future of Human Spaceflight

By Morris Jones on February 12, 2015

Throw dice in space and they won’t fall. That’s weightlessness at work. The future of international human spaceflight shouldn’t be as uncertain... Read more →

Deep Space Exploration3

Interstellar travel: Fact is fiction is fact

By Shivaprakash Muruganandham on February 9, 2015

In late 2012, after a 37-year journey, the Voyager 1 probe became the first ever object from Earth to leave the Heliosphere, a region of space... Read more →

Press Releases

IAASS Signs MoU with SGAC

By Carmen Felix on February 6, 2015

The International Association for Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS), sponsor of Space Safety Magazine, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding... Read more →

Asteroids and Comets

What if an Asteroid Was About to Hit Earth?

By Joe Pelton on February 6, 2015

Sci-fi movies that depict Earth’s near destruction from incoming asteroids like Armageddon or Deep Impact are seen as “scary entertainment” far... Read more →