How safe are Space spaceships from cosmic rays?

Spaceships in low-Earth orbit are substantially protected by our planet’s magnetic field, which forms a safe bubble about 50,000 km wide centered on Earth. Beyond that distance, however, solar flares and cosmic rays pose a threat to space travelers. Scientists are still searching for a good solution.

Could water be the fuel of the future in space?

A handful of firms are looking at space mining and, in particular, water extraction from planets and floating rockets to serve interplanetary missions. Space flight firms are developing the capacity to use hydrogen (found in water) as space fuel, saying it could reduce mission costs by 95\%.

Will humans ever go back to Deep Space?

Even though we did not go back to deep space, humans have begun to live and work outside the Earth’s atmosphere, often conducting experiments on themselves to determine the effects of weightlessness, or microgravity, on the human body. Slurping mojitos while floating in the bar of an interstellar hotel chain is not a near-future possibility.

What are the requirements to design a space ship?

Assignment: Design a Spaceship. Requirements – It must: achieve mission with payload and/or passengers. be easily and economically produced and maintained. be reusable and have as few stages as possible to reduce cost and recover expensive materials. pass all engineering and flight tests. BE COST EFFECTIVE.

Could an antimatter-powered spaceship avoid gamma rays?

The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) is funding a team of researchers working on a new design for an antimatter-powered spaceship that avoids this nasty side effect by producing gamma rays with much lower energy.

Is long duration spaceflight in the future?

While the Federation may be a few years in the future, long duration spaceflight is already a reality. People routinely spend six months in space at a time and, next year, two astronauts are set for a year-long mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

Will astronauts one day spend years inside a space ship?

Astronauts may one day spend years inside spaceships – and their interiors may have to be very different to our science fiction visions, writes Richard Hollingham. The starship Enterprise has got to be one of the most beautiful fictional spacecraft ever created.