Space for art
NASA, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and specialist spacesuit manufacturer ILC Dover announced a partnership this summer that brings the benefits of arts and science to paediatric cancer patients and also increases the awareness of childhood cancer.
Space is integral to our way of life. Without it, we would not enjoy the security we have, the economic growth that has resulted, or many of the modern comforts we all take for granted.
They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.
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The space industry is ripe for change and aging space architectures must be updated to meet the dynamic nature of the modern world.
In this article for ROOM, the author uses a top down approach to address the growing problem of space debris in Earth orbit along with the ongoing threat to our planet from impacts with celestial bodies and potential military conflict in orbit.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is an organisation continuously planning the impossible. Future missions and applications are first outlined when they are still well beyond the current edge of the technology envelope.
The commercial space market is rapidly expanding into unknown territory as it embraces new opportunities such as deep space mining. But, as it does so, we might be wise to learn from historical precedents like that of the Dutch East India Company which was set up in 1602 after the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on the Dutch spice trade.
Computer simulations are used extensively in astronomy, especially when the phenomena in question covers a vast interval of time, like the evolution of the Universe for example.