The 2024 MVA Italy Space Summer School (SSS) “Beyond Borders Edition” was a remarkable event celebrating International Moon Day and advancing space education.
We discuss mission architectures and the broader implications for exploration roadmaps and settlement strategies of the Solar System through interplanetary flight and beyond to interstellar flight.
Understanding neurological changes due to microgravity and radiation exposure will eventually help improve understanding of neurobiology on Earth.
This study will explore and explain the effects of lunar simulant on skin fibroblasts, immune cells, and lung epithelial cells.
One of the most common geologic features across the solar system are impact craters.
In the new “Wild West” of space travel, judicious regulation and law can help mitigate some of the worst outcomes of exploration and exploitation of the new off-Earth frontier.
The technological capabilities to develop a space economy and eventually inhabit space are already raising challenges to terrestrial models of governance.
This conference proceeding highlighted Poland’s evolving space education landscape since joining ESA, showcasing university programs, international training, and professional development opportunities in the country’s growing space sector.
The first part of this summary paper is based on my book The Dimming of Starlight: The Philosophy of Space Exploration. The second part focuses on international relations.
The AMS group is pioneering high-precision ionizing radiation (IR) dose-effect models to accurately predict the biological effects of IR on human health during space missions.
We propose an approach for developing Lunar Coordinated Time, Moon time units, and a luniterranean calendar for consideration by the international community.