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March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
...employing female mathematicians as early as the 1940s. These women performed detailed trajectory calculations, yet their importance in space history is virtually unknown by the wider public. Dana Ulery, the first female engineer at NASA (hired in ... Tereshkova’s flight. The names of all 13 women were made public for the first time in LIFE magazine but soon after, as the US continued to have no interest in a female astronaut programme they faded...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
...It could, however, be time to consider that icon of human space travel, the Space Shuttle, as it drifts further into the mists of history and rose-tinted recollection. About the author Mark Williamson is an independent... 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 ...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
...working on the rocket range, is open to tourists and is well worth a visit for the serious space history buff. The Woomera Heritage Centre, in the heart of the village, provides an excellent exhibition that ... Museum, situated in the heart of the city at Darling Harbour. Australia’s largest space history and technology exhibition, it places Australian space activities in their global context. Its exhibits include an Apollo 16 Moon rock 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 ...not the case though, for space weapons, because they are the most destabilising and unpredictable element in the picture. Again, they are nothing new, as the earlier history illustrated. Such incidents have ...
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...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... problem and... therefore, only subject to a political solution. Without supportive political action to develop the law of space, space lawyers are reduced to the 20th century version of arguing the number of angels that can sit on the...science, economics, culture and law. She has degrees in law and physics and has written for magazines, radio and broadcast documentaries. She was recently the ‘in-house’ writer and researcher for London-based...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
...era when much of this understanding reflects back on our home planet, there is much that the history of space exploration can teach us about our responsibility for the terrestrial environment. Jacques Arnould takes a philosophical look ... for our own humanity and our environment The second lesson that could be drawn from the history of space exploration concerns the apprehension of ‘the time to come’. I deliberately use this singular expression to ...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
.... We must not underestimate contributions made to the arts and to our cultural history by space exploration and space travel While the USA and the Soviet Union fought for state-based supremacy both...of the times. We must not underestimate the contribution made to the arts and to our cultural history by space exploration and space travel. Technological advancement, accelerated by the 20th century’s love affair with worldwide warfare, will mean...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... of the most productive scientific instruments ever created. Thus, the HST could be viewed as being as significant to the history of science as Darwin’s HMS Beagle, Newton’s ‘Opticks’ treatise or Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks. Given the chance,... solutions to catch up with the justifiable desire not to throw away our history? So-called ‘space junk’ still in orbit is a significant element of, and provides a substantial contribution to, our shared...
