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September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
... I serve (as well as the astronauts) 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 ... something as simple as a handshake or a child’s painting can change the course of history Our beautifully hand-painted space suit was launched as part of the cargo headed for the ISS on a SpaceX Falcon F9 rocket in July. I was...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
...children at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center that were then beautifully quilted together by space suit manufacturer ILC Dover. HOPE was invited to participate in a display at the 2016 International Quilt ... 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 about...
September 2016
Art, Space & Inspiration.
...believe is the most meaningful project I have ever supported. The Space Suit Art Project’ is a beautiful combination of art, space, and kids painting space suits. A space-inspired art project that is raising awareness for childhood cancer, and... collective impact on healing. In a future issue, I hope to share my own personal experience with ‘The Space Suit Art Project’ and stories of some of the others involved. But for now I want to introduce you ...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... 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 the Budget Suites hotel chain, is... test-flying inflatable cabin modules for a future space hotel. Polls show that over half of us would like to travel...
August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
... fuse data sources and it is clear that these methods can be well suited to SSA challenges. An example of this is space object characterisation. Data from different sources, electronic optics, radar and radio frequency...for example Variational Autoencoders (VAE), we can model the variations of the appearance of a particular space object or a class of space objects. We can also model (or interpolate) a finer variation between objects or types. In ...
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...
August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
... blindly, did not facilitate the attraction of investment, whereas the possibility that extraction of space resources amounts to appropriation incommodes the initial planning. Hearing the concerns of all parties involved... and private interests. Whether a regulatory solution is on the horizon or not, the debate on space resources governance is definitely here to stay, especially given the time-consuming procedures involved. Serious international...
June 2018
Striding through space
...by his crewmate Robert ‘Hoot’ Gibson through the window of the Space Shuttle Challenger, the iconic image of McCandless’ white space-suited figure floating free above the Earth’s curved horizon against a black sky... by a plain white space suit, whereas McCandless had a red stripe on each limb, like Apollo moonwalker Commanders. After an EVA of almost six hours, the two space walkers returned to the Shuttle airlock. Bruce McCandless tests...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
... her flight and didn’t eat during her three days in space. Surviving members of the original Mercury 13 on a Kennedy Space Center visit to witness a Space Shuttle launch - though they were not given the chance to become... steps on a celestial body other than Earth. Eileen Collins became the first female to pilot the Space Shuttle. Ed Dwight - the first African-American -astronaut trainee (selected by the Kennedy administration despite open ...
