July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... for some form of common management by a governing body to redistribute income from space mining. Developed nations prefer...not assert sovereignty over or ownership of the celestial bodies themselves. This approach appears to be influencing others...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
...Reduced gravity The consequences of prolonged microgravity on the human body - osteopenia and osteoporosis (the long-term loss of ... the human body. There have only been 12 humans who have travelled to the surface of another celestial body and those ...
May 2019
Wake-up call for debris creation in geostationary orbit
... equation in that additional terms to account for a non-spherical Earth and the gravitational effect of other celestial bodies are required to simulate thousands of orbiting objects. Consequently, randomising or ‘stochastic’ models are used to give...
February 2019
Reflections on the future human condition
... our terrestrial condition, offering us a global vision of our own planet within the universe? Earth is not an anonymous celestial body among thousands, millions and billions of others; it is not a cradle that we could potentially or must necessarily...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
...and Use of Outer Space including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, more commonly known as the Outer Space Treaty (OST...under the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the UN body responsible for air safety is available here: http://www....
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... a fine line in avoiding Article II of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 (OST), which banned the appropriation of ‘celestial bodies’. It is true that Article IV of the OST states that governments are responsible for the oversight of non-governmental ...
