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August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... the MarCO (Mars Cube One) spacecraft as the first interplanetary cubesats, intended as pathfinders for the space science community. Two MarCO spacecraft are scheduled to launch on the same rocket as InSight in May 2018,...other space agencies. About the author Anthony Freeman joined NASA’s JPL in 1987 and is now manager of JPL’s incubator of new ideas, the Innovation Foundry, working on many mission concepts across Earth Science, Planetary Science ...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
... - the Moon - and the 179 art quilts tell the story of our fascination with our nearest planetary neighbour since the dawn of time through to the Apollo moon walks and beyond. Both well-known... to the Moon and when we make those first steps on Mars we will be wearing space suits. As we’ve seen, space suits designed for use in space have inspired space suit art, but they have also inspired fashion designers to think differently...
September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
... exhibited at the hospital, to exhibiting our art through partnerships with the Museum of Health and Medical Science and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, to animation made in collaboration with our patients and families ...to think about their own journey in a new way. I decided that a space suit would be a profound symbol of how we can work together to integrate the best of science and art to create a form of protection. With this in mind, I knew...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... investing some of their fortunes in private space travel include Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, who is developing a spacecraft that flies like those envisioned in early science fiction novels. Robert Bigelow, founder of...on Earth as doctors, engineers and inventors. Today’s students don’t view living and working in space or on Mars as science fiction, they see it as the future. SpaceShipOne nestled safely beneath her mothership, the White ...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
...is a prudent, efficient and strong global governance - including a robust space governance system. By global space governance we mean a collection of space-related international binding agreements and non-binding guidelines (and codes of conduct...broadcasting, weather forecasting, navigation, medicine, security and remote sensing - to embrace space tourism, space mining, space-based solar power, and the future settlement on the Moon and Mars. Along...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... approaches Today, there is increased enthusiasm for SETI. While this is partially due to the surge in planetary discovery, there are also improvements in technology that can broaden the search and increase its speed... is Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. He is also the host of ‘Big Picture Science’, the SETI Institute’s weekly radio show, and is committed to getting the public, especially young people, excited...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
...administration of justice in outer space; who should be assigned as the investigatory authority and who should administer any resulting punishment? Whilst popular science fiction tends to give ...Gorove, S. (1991), Draft Convention on Manned Space Flight, German Journal of Air and Space Law p.3-8 10 Abeyratne, R. (2004), Space Tourism - Parallel Synergies between Air and Space Law? German Journal of Air and Space Law p.184-202 11 Abeyratne, (n 10) ...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... but it is also noteworthy that even hydrogen, oxygen, water or other volatiles in space can also be valuable. The Planetary Resources website states, ‘In orbit, spacecraft propellant is a multi-billion dollar industry with ...Clearly low cost remote surveying and reconnaissance satellites are currently a top priority for space mining ventures and Planetary Resources, together with 3D Systems, is currently developing a prototype small satellite. ...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... stadium and super-shuttles (Gouache + digital). From ‘Futures: 50 Years in Space’ by David A Hardy & Patrick Moore, 2004 Throughout the 1950s, science fiction and other illustrators who had never even looked through a telescope...Utah, the Crimea, Yellowstone Park, the Grand Canyon and Meteor Crater, Arizona, and so on; nearly all ‘planetary analogues’. In a sense, they are following in the footsteps of the artists of the Hudson River School such ...
