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06 July 2020
Russia and Space Adventures sign contract to offer first tourist spacewalk
... get outside and go for a spacewalk too. In a recent announcement, Russian rocket company RSC Energia and US space tourism firm Space Adventures revealed that a contract to send two tourists to the ISS aboard a Soyuz rocket has been signed... for a 10-day trip. It has not been disclosed how much the trip with RSC Energia and Space Adventures will cost, but one of the two lucky passengers, will initiate another first like Tito did...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
...Side in all of us, and its impact on our behaviour forms the motive power behind countless space adventures, portrayed in black-and-white and glorious technicolour by the moviemakers. But how realistic are these... is very much worth watching because it effectively shows three points of particular interest to would-be space voyagers. First, space is tremendously inhospitable and, for now at least, living conditions are likely to be claustrophobic, ...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... the space industry, space insurance and space education sectors. He is the author of six books, including The Cambridge Dictionary of Space Technology and Space: The Fragile Frontier, has edited three space industry magazines and ...written more than 600 articles and papers on space technology. He has a BSc in...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...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...successor, the X-37 spaceplane. In effect, the secret shuttle flights marked the normalisation of military space. Romantic adventure that spaceflight might be, those in authority reached the view - accurately it seems - that...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... NPO of Russia. Yes, the press said US$20 million. Not true. Some have also said the company Space Adventures made the flight happen. Also not true. They did fly those after Tito and hats... is funding a good cause And so it began. In the years that followed, others took the same trip. Thanks to Space Adventures, which was founded by another group of guys who shared the dream, the airlock stayed open for...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
...only the tip of the iceberg of a 70-year-long militarised Global Space Age. Robotic adventures on the Moon or astronauts on rival space stations are high-profile scientific or exploration activities that have little bearing.... “Politics has always been at the heart of humankind’s exploration and utilisation of space, and the space programmes themselves have never been able to transcend terrestrial international politics”. US astronaut, Kevin...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
..., may be an important link in humanity’s long-term survival. An immediate benefit of increasing the human presence in space may be the sense of adventure it would give the people of the world. Millions of kids might be inspired to pursue science and improve...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... silent magnificence of the territories to be discovered commanding deference – they had to remain virgin. The adventure was romantic and dangerous, the harshness of the cosmos demanding the greatest caution both for men...for a philosopher, re-affirming its role as a multi-disciplinary think tank for the global space community. The Space Generation Advisory Council could initiate a project group dedicated to humanities in general, broadening the ...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... the community. Holly is on the advisory boards for global organisations such as Space Vault, Finsophy, and STEM for Women magazine. She also sits on the Space Economy Task Force in Austin, Texas. Jeff Smith is a Material Control Analyst...
