June 2018
Publish or perish: the astronomer’s dilemma
...://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08033) was complemented by an analysis of annual reports and evaluation documents, and this article summarises the policies and their performance indicators. According to the sociology of science, policies and their performance...
August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
...through the design certification phase, which included atmospheric flight tests of the Dream Chaser Engineering Test Article at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. Lindsey is also responsible for launch, orbit operations, entry and...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... unimaginable when Arendt published what was arguably her most influential work, The Human Condition. In this article, engineer and author Guerric de Crombrugghe questions the meaning and value of our current space ambitions to humankind...
January 2019
Is the NewSpace bubble about to burst?
...personalities and the hype that surrounds them? In this article, Tim Farrar poses some pertinent questions and sounds a ... fibre to not even mentioning satellite in a recent lengthy feature article on the Vision Fund. And finally, given the lack of ...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
...alien concept for NASA at the time. Here, in an article based on his presentation at the Asgardia Space Science & Investment...Dutch company MirCorp. He is the author of numerous articles and several books, including Selling Peace, which chronicles Jeff...
May 2020
An ethical code for living in space
... in space is crucial to all humanity before we organise and carry out any broad significant activities there This article is dedicated to the moral aspects of space activity which, once accepted, should be followed up with a document dealing with...