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February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
...-format printing company in Canberra that could do what I wanted, but obviously it was not going to happen for free. There comes a time in any project where the realities of money set in. I discovered, however, that there was... that benefit all of us every day. The empty shell I inherited now has over 70,000 visitors a year coming out to see it and 10,000 school students and their teachers coming to learn about the wonders of space and Australia...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... of the activities themselves. As a child, the first image that came to my mind when thinking about space exploration, was that of an astronaut delicately picking up a rock, somewhere on the vast expanses of the...meaning I have mixed feelings about that narrative of space exploration. As a technology enthusiast, I am delighted – except, of course, for the seemingly inevitable space war. The progress we are making is beyond all hope. Part of me,...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... it a sense of adventure, danger and romance reminiscent of the cultural impact of the Space Age. Isn’t this our destiny, isn’t this what ‘Space’ is all about? Chris Lee argues that humanity’s destiny today remains Earth and not... of ‘astronaut as hero’ was more muted in my upbringing, the PR less obvious, the people more distant. TIME magazine was not a regular on our coffee table. Instead I was fascinated by where the astronauts were going and...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...military’ space and ‘civilian’ space, with an all-civilian space agency, NASA. The government and media portrayal of early space was unmistakably ‘peaceful purposes’: see the film The Right Stuff, read the US-published Colliers magazine or Russia... both the famous Telstar communications satellite and the first British satellite, Ariel, but few talked about it. The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) project, cancelled in 1969, was touted as an early ...
August 2020
Opportunities for young people in the space sector
...need to educate young people about space-related activities and careers and provide them with the skills needed to enter the sector. There are year-round events for students of all ages, backgrounds and abilities... X: Train Like an Astronaut, an international challenge which focuses on topics in space, science, fitness and nutrition. Citizen science portals like Zooniverse offer free and online-accessible activities that teachers can use for class...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...000 objects between 1 mm and 1 cm. Of all this material in orbit, only about 2,300 objects are functional satellites; the rest is what we loosely call ‘space junk’. Above right: A proposed space junk recycler would harness solar energy... roughly equally between the following three answers: Yes, of course. It’s important we get rid of all that clutter to free up essential low and medium altitude Earth orbits (LEO and MEO). No. There’s stuff we could...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
...can philosophy say about space exploration, and what exactly is the philosophy behind any space mission? In this article, philosopher Konrad Szocik outlines the main issues that the philosophy of space mission deals with...might be. Philosophers ponder not only whether we should inform a potential extraterrestrial intelligence of our existence at all, but also what protocols Earth residents should apply in the event of an encounter with such an ...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... of differing cultures and historical sensitivities to past military conflicts. How to end a space war Wars are all ultimately about politics. It might be assumed that when the initial reasons for the start of ...display. Notional orbital attack detection display. Due to the right of free passage in space already established by international agreements and tradition, how does one hold on to space ‘territory’? Is it similar to the law of the sea ...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... run out. For added realism, much of the film was shot in an aircraft capable of sustaining short periods of free fall - weightlessness – in a series of parabolic flights. So the actors really are weightless in many of the scenes. ...’ on their home planet or space station. This is, in fact, an unintentional subtext of Star Wars, revealed by the fact that almost all the non-central characters are seen going about their jobs, getting on with life,...
