February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
.... Oberth was also a theoretician who was well-known to early rocket pioneers in Europe and beyond. He tried a bit of experimentation, but he was a better writer than scientist or engineer. Oberth privately published one of the most influential...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
... lights of the launch pad in the distance, there is a balance of beauty and complexity. A complexity that can actually be a bit mind boggling and make it difficult to believe that we as human beings could imagine and successfully create something...
June 2020
Building a digital democracy in a planetary pandemic
... me personally. As Chair of Parliament, I do find that not being able to hold some meetings face-to-face has been a bit troublesome. So I hope that by the time you read this, the airways will have started to open up again...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
..., with models of this complexity, it would be unwise to leave the buyer with a grey baseboard and a big bag of bits! So each of the kits includes a full-colour manual with step-by-step instructions to help locate the parts...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... multicellularity, a feature that only evolved in earnest some 88 percent of the way through Earth’s history. This would be a bit more challenging, but is still potentially doable. The best bet for this would be to determine if a planet’s green...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...one capable of extending our reach off-planet. This technological footprint, our orbital heritage, is arguably every bit as important as Neil Armstrong’s footprint on the Moon. Examples of significant items still in orbit that may merit consideration...
