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RESEARCH ARTICLES
April 25, 2025 EDT
Factors Influencing Empathy During Short-Duration Space Analog Missions
Scott Van Hoy
A team’s ability to manage social conflict is closely related to members’ empathy, thus it is considered an important individual trait for astronauts operating as part of a spaceflight team.
RESEARCH ARTICLES
April 25, 2025 EDT
Towards the Moon Village Generation: The 2nd Edition of the MVA Italy Space Summer School Experience
Alessandro BartoloniGiovanni RomanoTancredi Siragusa

The 2024 MVA Italy Space Summer School (SSS) “Beyond Borders Edition” was a remarkable event celebrating International Moon Day and advancing space education.

RESEARCH ARTICLES
April 25, 2025 EDT
The Emergence of a Fusion Propulsion Capability This Century and Implications for Exploration and Settlement Strategies
Kelvin F. Long

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.

Neurological Changes in Outer Space RESEARCH ARTICLES
April 24, 2025 EDT
Neurological Changes in Outer Space
Krishnan Ganapathy

Understanding neurological changes due to microgravity and radiation exposure will eventually help improve understanding of neurobiology on Earth.

Lunar Challenges: Exploring Human Health Risks From Lunar Dust Exposure and Lunar Gravity in Moon Missions RESEARCH ARTICLES
April 24, 2025 EDT
Lunar Challenges: Exploring Human Health Risks From Lunar Dust Exposure and Lunar Gravity in Moon Missions
Vivek MannAlamelu Sundaresan

This study will explore and explain the effects of lunar simulant on skin fibroblasts, immune cells, and lung epithelial cells.

The Preliminary Investigation of Impact Craters on Asteroid (4) Vesta RESEARCH ARTICLES
April 24, 2025 EDT
The Preliminary Investigation of Impact Craters on Asteroid (4) Vesta
Michael F. Zeilnhofer

One of the most common geologic features across the solar system are impact craters.

RESEARCH ARTICLES
April 24, 2025 EDT
The New Wild West: Law, Regulation, Conflict, and the Future of Space
Chris Impey

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.

RESEARCH ARTICLES
April 24, 2025 EDT
Sovereignty on Mars: Pragmatic Solutions, Idealistic Models, and Historical Analogs
Jacob Haqq-Misra

The technological capabilities to develop a space economy and eventually inhabit space are already raising challenges to terrestrial models of governance.

A Decade of Growth: Space Education in Poland Since Joining ESA RESEARCH ARTICLES
April 24, 2025 EDT
A Decade of Growth: Space Education in Poland Since Joining ESA
Paweł Zyglewski

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.

Humankind in Outer Space RESEARCH ARTICLES
April 24, 2025 EDT
Humankind in Outer Space
Gonzalo MunévarPhillip McMurray

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.

Advancing Readiness for Deep Space Exploration: Status and Developments by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Group RESEARCH ARTICLES
April 24, 2025 EDT
Advancing Readiness for Deep Space Exploration: Status and Developments by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Group
Alessandro BartoloniDaniel C. BerriosAugusto Di Chicco

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.

Universal Timekeeping in Space: Moving Beyond Earth as a Reference RESEARCH ARTICLES
April 24, 2025 EDT
Universal Timekeeping in Space: Moving Beyond Earth as a Reference
Steven D.P. Moore

We propose an approach for developing Lunar Coordinated Time, Moon time units, and a luniterranean calendar for consideration by the international community.