August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
Could the Catalina Sky Survey be improved to find even more asteroids - especially those like 164121 that might threaten Earth? In 2014, NASA asked this question. It turned out that another group was also interested in answering the same question - ...
August 2016
Long-term spaceflight and microbiological safety issues
Microorganisms are record-breakers when it comes to the longest period an organism has survived in space. They not only live on orbital stations but they develop, adapt to the space environment and are able to reproduce. The longer spacecraft ...
August 2016
Space for art
... of Christmas Island taken by Nicole from the ISS. As well as allowing us to dream, they fit neatly with the articles that follow in this Space Lounge section of ROOM: ‘Are the days of innovation over - or just beginning?’, asks...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
On Christmas Eve 1968, a turbulent world looked to the heavens for a unique view of our home planet. Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders had become the first humans ever to leave Earth’s orbit. That evening during a ...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
When most people think of space, they think of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Apollo programme, Space Shuttle launches, the International Space Station; all high profile human exploration programmes carried out by...
September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
Early in my career as an artist I became interested in art as a functional form of civic action. I felt that aesthetics and the pursuit of the understanding of form and beauty, led me to believe that those things were connected to broader ideas like...
