August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
In space research, the International Space Station (ISS) is a symbol of peaceful interational collaboration in Earth orbit, and is intended to be used intensively as a one-of-a-kind laboratory for cutting-edge research. In future, it will be ...
June 2020
Building a digital democracy in a planetary pandemic
... continued to function with comparatively little disruption. Asgardia’s Chair of Parliament, Lembit Öpik, reports on a period... to travel has been a little limiting for me personally. As Chair of Parliament, I do find that not being able to hold some...
January 2020
A year of consolidation and expansion
... the northern European city of Tallinn, Estonia. Asgardia’s Chair of Parliament, Lembit Öpik, reviews the well-attended ... Physical Sitting, the Executives Congress, comprising all the Chairs of Committees and Ministers of Government, was convened by...
January 2021
Developing the economy of a space nation
... the capacity to stimulate thinking and the process has to be allowed to develop organically. In terms of group culture, even as Chair of Parliament, I can facilitate the process but I cannot direct exactly where it leads us. The major news in terms...
March 2019
Laying the foundations for cosmic habitation
... the destination that Asgardia was set up to deliver - the permanent habitation of space. My immediate ‘external’ next step as Chair of Parliament is to build more links with other parliaments, and reach out on behalf of Asgardia to make the right...
June 2019
Asgardia’s parliament – a year of progress
...honorary title. Government is led by the Prime Minister, Ana Mercedes Diaz. Parliament is the responsibility of myself, the Chair of Parliament. We also have a Supreme Justice to oversee the legal system, headed up by Yun Zhao. The Asgardia Executive...
