04 May 2021
New NASA Administrator sworn in
... to be sworn in by Vice President Harris to serve as NASA administrator, and I look forward to a continued, strong relationship with her as chair of the National Space Council,” Nelson said after the ceremony. “I want to thank Steve Jurczyk for his...
01 September 2021
Asgardia space nation links up with Corfu
...offices of Sotirios Mouzakitis, a commercial lawyer and deputy chair of Asgardia’s parliament. Mr Linardos thanked Dr Ashurbeyli... by Asgardia’s prime minister Lena de Winne and the chair of Parliament Lembit Opik, a former British politician, as...
11 October 2021
Blue Origin flight with William Shatner postponed until 13 October
.... Glen de Vries is the co-founder of Medidata Solutions, the world's most used clinical research platform, and is Vice Chair Life Sciences & Healthcare at Dassault Systèmes. Glen is a Trustee of Carnegie Mellon University, the author of “The Patient...
March 2015
Sowing a new dream
... IVA spacesuit on and off, dropping from the escape tower, tasting space food, trying the rotation chair and talking with taikonauts face-to-face. They learn a lot, and come to feel both the pain...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
..., more focused on return on investment and potential profits than on embedding ecological sustainability. As Yasushi Horikawa, former chair of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space states: “All space actors must behave responsibly...
June 2015
Re-usable rockets: a new breakthrough for suborbital research
... for the company. Dr. Stern is an experienced suborbital, Earth orbital, and planetary mission researcher; the former chair of the REM committee of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation; and a former NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science...
