Issue #2(2) 2014 Lounge

The vanity of machines

Ready for the big event – Rosetta mission selfie taken on 7 October at a distance of about 16 km from its target comet

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Opinion

The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology

Lounge

Reinventing the space museum

Environment

Colouring our view of the oceans

ROOM, Space Magazine Cover

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Space agencies and the armed forces are susceptible to conspiracy theories, largely due to the perceived lack of transparency concerning their activities. Above: Major Jesse A. Marcel holds a piece of foil-lined material related to the Roswell, New Mexico, UFO incident at Fort Worth Army Airfield, 8 July 1947 (Photo: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections Division).

Astronautics

Winning the Space Race at home

The space beyond Earth is awash with radiation – charged particles emitted from the Sun, confined within Earth’s magnetosphere or originating from the wider Universe, are a major cause of satellite anomalies and malfunctions.

Opinion

Spacecraft protection and resilience - a convergent approach