Mercury Astronauts Suit Up
Rocket a man into space? How will you protect him above the atmosphere? NASA issued “specifications for the Mercury pressure suit” in October... Read more →
Increasing Awareness of Space Safety
Two years have passed since Space Safety Magazine came to life. Founded by a team of three people with sponsorship from the International Association... Read more →
Space Tourism Insurance: What Happens When You Crash into a Space Station?
For tourists, space travel represents an exciting and unexplored frontier. For insurers, the prospect of insuring commercial space travel offers... Read more →
In Focus: Why Spaceflight is Becoming Blurrier over Time
Scientists have long known that extended spaceflight leads to changes in the human body such as muscle atrophy, bone loss, and fluid shift.... Read more →
Space Junk: Why Gravity is More Plausible than You Might Think
Gravity, the new space thriller starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, is being hailed as one of the greatest movies of modern science-fiction.... Read more →
Novel Thrusters Being Developed for Nanosats
L. Brad King's prototype of a ferrofluid ion thruster. When subjected to voltage, the points of the crown arise from a ring-shaped trench circling a... Read more →