Form Follows Story: An Approach to Designing for Commercial Space Travel

Design practice has historically been constrained by the assumption that designed objects, including clothing, will be made and worn in Earth gravity. The notion that designed objects have an upright state has influenced common approaches to design, including the tendency towards depiction and presentation of designed objects in elevation view, which, for fashion, is frequently understood in terms of silhouette. However, those who have experienced weightlessness, either in space travel or on board reduced-gravity aircraft, describe a post-gravity experience that prompts them to revisit these assumptions and consider the extent to which future commercial space travel will liberate creative practitioners to operate at all angles and orientations. As we enter the commercial space age, fashion will be increasingly worn in a variety of gravitational conditions, and the dressed body will therefore be encountered at a variety of orientations, showcasing views of garments that are not often encountered on Earth, and that are therefore often overlooked by fashion designers. This article responds to descriptions of the post-gravity experience by identifying the need to consider alternative views of the clothed body, and consequently to define garments without reference to the silhouette in fashion design for the new commercial space age.

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Launching Into Commercial Space: Innovations in Space Travel

10.2514/4.102585 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Joseph N. Pelton ◽

Peter Marshall

Keyword(s):

Space Travel ◽

Commercial Space

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Back Pain in Outer Space

Anesthesiology ◽

10.1097/aln.0000000000003812 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Radostin Penchev ◽

Richard A. Scheuring ◽

Adam T. Soto ◽

Derek M. Miletich ◽

Eric Kerstman ◽

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Keyword(s):

Back Pain ◽

Outer Space ◽

Intervertebral Discs ◽

Spinal Curvature ◽

Future Research ◽

Space Travel ◽

Medical Problems ◽

Commercial Space ◽

Acceleration And Deceleration ◽

Space Adaptation

Space travel has grown during the past 2 decades, and is expected to surge in the future with the establishment of an American Space Force, businesses specializing in commercial space travel, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s planned sustained presence on the moon. Accompanying this rise, treating physicians are bracing for a concomitant increase in space-related medical problems, including back pain. Back pain is highly prevalent in astronauts and space travelers, with most cases being transient and self-limiting (space adaptation back pain). Pathophysiologic changes that affect the spine occur during space travel and may be attributed to microgravity, rapid acceleration and deceleration, and increased radiation. These include a loss of spinal curvature, spinal muscle atrophy, a higher rate of disc herniation, decreased proteoglycan and collagen content in intervertebral discs, and a reduction in bone density that may predispose people to vertebral endplate fractures. In this article, the authors discuss epidemiology, pathophysiology, prevention, treatment, and future research.

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Water Recognition on the Moon by Using THz Heterodyne-Spectrometer for Identifying the Appropriate Locations to Extract Water for Providing Oxygen for Breathing and Fuel for Spaceships’ Propulsion on the Moon with CubeSat

Aerospace ◽

10.3390/aerospace8070186 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (7) ◽

pp. 186

Author(s):

Vahid Rastinasab ◽

Weidong Hu ◽

Mohammad Kazem Tahmasebi

Keyword(s):

Water Resources ◽

Outer Space ◽

Water Sources ◽

Lunar Orbit ◽

Space Travel ◽

The Moon ◽

Commercial Space ◽

Interplanetary Missions ◽

Heterodyne Spectrometer

Asteroid mining offers vital sources for improving human lives and provides opportunities for interplanetary missions and space travel. There are many professional commercial space companies that are only investing billions of dollars on asteroids mining, but prior to that, one condition for asteroid mining could be planetary stations to refuel the pioneers’ spacecraft or human colonies on alien planets; hence, one of the vital sources for these purposes is water. Water can be harvested to split oxygen for breathing and hydrogen for refueling spaceships’ propulsions, and Earth-to-space water payload transporting is extremely expensive; therefore, discovering extraterrestrial water in outer space is economically beneficial. This paper presents a Lunar CubeSat Injector to deliver four 3U CubeSats into Low Lunar Orbit to make a constellation to identify locations of water sources on the Moon by using a THz heterodyne-spectrometer. In sum, this project can help scientists to recognize more water resources for those who will colonize the Moon and for those planning to go beyond it.

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