ROOM: The Space magazine is one of the prominent magazines on space exploration, technology and industry. At ROOM, we share a common dream – advancement of peaceful space exploration for the benefit of humankind, all while bringing you throughly researched articles on an assortment,a range of trending topics. Our authors include academics and industry leaders from all over the world, which lets us bring you the most up-to-date and accurate information about time magazine space exploration.
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... splashed down in the ocean. My naive child’s-eye-view was quite removed from today’s vision of space exploration. Now we live in a time when launching a car on a super-orbital trajectory, a move described as “silly and fun” by its...may be achieved faster than anticipated. By the time we land on Mars, it will be too late to ask ourselves if it was such a good idea after all. Space exploration then – astronaut Mark Watney sits alone contemplating ...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
... is much that the history of space exploration can teach us about our responsibility for the terrestrial environment. Jacques Arnould takes a philosophical look behind the veil of space-time. Two things fill the mind with... 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 introduce the distinction that the...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... 2030s. Maintaining a sustainable presence in LEO At the same time as pursuing initiatives in cislunar space and beyond, the leading space agencies also agree on the importance of maintaining a sustainable presence... LEO programmes - as well as robotic lunar exploration missions. Currently, over 30 countries were reported to be actively financing space exploration activities Moreover, space exploration is not only attracting the interest of an ...
July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
... running as a rocket propellant for decades until the commercialisation of space exploration began in the mid-1990s. By that time, there were several commercial companies building small spacecraft and launching them...soon pushed out of consideration by other propellants featuring higher specific impulse performance. The commercialisation of space exploration has, however, induced a revival of interest in this propellant, which can be considered the...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
...time. In November 2019, STEAMSPACE will launch Phase Two of the plan with Leadership Conferences for a cadre of Cities in Space Ambassadors. These smaller, targeted conferences will train students in leadership skills, with hands-on workshops exploring... 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 ...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
... to living on another planet or back on Earth? Commercial exploitation of space Commercial missions include space transport, space tourism and space mining. While commercial space exploration may seem more trivial than scientific exploration, paradoxically, it generates - at least initially - fewer ethical problems than...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... pursuit of knowledge for the common benefit of humankind. Yet these feats of science and space exploration, which inspire many, are only the tip of the iceberg of a 70-year-long militarised Global... been, inseparably interlinked. “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...
July 2019
Next steps in human space exploration
... for its leadership in that respect. In fact, it’s an exciting time for human space flight: in the United States we may have four new vehicles flying humans to space this year. There’s never been that degree of innovation in human...back to the way it used to be billions of years ago. Every one of us has talked about using space and space exploration to make life better for humans here on the planet and in fact that’s our goal. We’ll continue to...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
... pleasure to be surprised by discovering some new and creative way that artists are presenting the story of space exploration. One of these surprising and recent discoveries is the world of quilting. This is another whole world ... quilting certainly generated more excitement for the art of quilting, but at the same time did a great job opening up the world of space exploration to a group of people who might not otherwise have been interested. As a ...
