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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Astronautics

European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions

Specials

On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade

Opinion

Pandemic parallels

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The imagined sky – power, inequality and the future of space sustainability

There is no place on Earth where extraction does not add pressure to an already overstressed world Astronautics

Humanity – the potential of space