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 ...
19 September 2023
The Astronomer’s Chair
... “back into a thick cultural context”, reconstructs a “conventionalized and value-laden perspective” and reveals how the chairs were “positioned within… a particular historical and imperial framework”. Put more simply, the author investigates what...
September 2023
Five more years for Asgardia’s stellar democracy
... So, what happens next? At time of writing (mid-summer), we are still completing Asgardia’s Committee membership - including the Chairs. At a personal level, I want to note one tragic setback. One of the prime candidates for one of the Committees...
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...
