June 2015
Training space tourists to fly to the ISS at the Gagarin Centre
... non-governmental, privately funded projects. First was the TV journalist Toyohiro Akiyama from Japan and then Britain’s Helen Sharman. Both travelled to the Soviet Mir station aboard Soyuz spacecraft. Yet these were one...
May 2017
Could Brexit blow a hole in UK’s space ambitions?
We are leaving the European Union not Europe”, an often-repeated phrase since the UK Referendum of 23 June 2016, and one which might offer some comfort to those who are participants in organisations outside the European Union (EU), including the ...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... the satellites are highly valuable, they are also vulnerable and they make highly attractive targets. Britain’s Blue Streak rocket was launched for the first time from Woomera in 1964. Smaller, shorter endurance...
June 2019
Asgardia’s parliament – a year of progress
... for many centuries and a lot has changed in that time. For example, in the early 20th century, Britain’s political system took the rather ‘radical’ step of giving women the vote. Who would have thought...
August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
... concept development for the Musuem of Cosmology. By comparison, Kelly MacDonald reminds us that throughout 19th Century Britain, “not only were [science] museums regarded as exemplars of analytical techniques and as useful for scientific research...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
...-scale. Shortly after, a spectacular aurora, bright enough to cast shadows, appeared along the southern coast of Britain. Spacecraft in geostationary orbit effectively became solar wind detectors as Earth’s magnetic shield buckled under the extreme...
