ROOM: The Space Journal is one of the top magazines on space exploration, technology and industry. At ROOM, we share a common objective – promotion of peaceful space exploration for the benefit of humankind, all while bringing you detailed articles on an array of popular topics. Our authors include experts and industry leaders from all over the world, which lets us bring you the most up-to-date and accurate information about how to become a space journalist.
November 2026
Beyond footprints - what Apollo really taught us about becoming a spacefaring civilisation
... commercial launch systems and lunar ambitions, an uncomfortable question lingers: did Apollo actually teach us how to become a spacefaring civilisation? In this timely article, Mark Stewart argues that the true legacy of Apollo... spaceflight to symbolic gestures and short-duration missions circling endlessly above the Earth. The International Space Station (ISS) became one of humanity’s greatest engineering achievements and one of its strangest ...
May 2025
Mythologies of Outer Space - A new perspective on the final frontier
... perspectives, and the arts, the book presents a compelling discussion on how we have imagined space – and how those visions continue to shape our actions beyond Earth. This collection originated... Through a multidisciplinary lens, the contributors urge us to rethink our approach to space exploration. Will it be an extension of exploitative colonial practices, or can it become a domain of equitable collaboration? As we look to the stars, the way...
October 2026
Dream of a lifetime - Witnessing Artemis II from the Kennedy Space Center press site
...NASA’s ambitions were scaled back, I turned my passion for science into a career, becoming a research chemist working in the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy and ...how inspiring human exploration can be. Their safe return represented the culmination of years of work by thousands of engineers, technicians, scientists and support staff whose dedication made the mission possible. As a journalist, I have always believed that space...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
... industry have ‘travelled’ by now if the Apollo programme had not been cancelled, how realistic are the hopes and dreams of humanity becoming a space-dwelling, multi-planetary species and, most importantly for some, when will we take... editor of BBC News Online. He has won many awards including European Internet Journalist of the year and the first Arthur award for space reporting. He has written seven acclaimed books and has made more broadcasts...
May 2022
Redefining the space professional – disruptions in the space sector workforce
...on ‘boundary control’ - their ability to keep work and family separate, which directly influences when and how much work is done. As for employee retention, employers will now have to work harder at dynamic ... instances, a Master’s degree has been seen as the default entry requirement to becoming a space professional. For example, in January 2022, the European Space Agency (ESA) published a schematic where all paths to an ESA staff position ...
March 2026
The imagined sky – power, inequality and the future of space sustainability
... and long-term preservation before detrimental norms become entrenched. Frontier narrative and its consequences To understand how behaviour takes shape, we must also examine the narratives that frame space. The frontier metaphor remains deeply influential...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
...a zero-degree inclination low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite would not pass within current space surveillance sensor networks, yet can become a universal ASAT through relatively low delta-v manoeuvres that simply change orbital altitude... different for each conflict theatre of operations, and perhaps for each perceived current conflict escalation level. How space wars start Like any wars in the past, both modern and ancient, conflict can be initiated ...
April 2026
Future-building in space - sustainability as first principle
...the best of us, as defined by previous and present generations. Importantly, these assets should inform both how we get to space and how we relate to one another, and to the environment, once we are there. Born from a ...ensure that future generations can thrive using what we give to them. This moment in history - right before we become a multi-planetary species - is characterised by an opportunity that few have ever been given: the opportunity to ...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... has been so gradual that the general public has only a modest awareness of how dependent our global society has become on space navigation systems, space-based communications, remote sensing, meteorological services, and even national defence systems. But...
