August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
... offer them when run at its full potential. The Hall - an early concept development for the Musuem of Cosmology. By comparison, Kelly MacDonald reminds us that throughout 19th Century Britain, “not only were [science] museums regarded...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... Oberth (Romania/Germany), and Robert Goddard (USA). Tsiolkovsky published several small books on space travel and cosmology (the expansion of humans into the cosmos). The ‘holy grail’ of this genre is an article published in the May...
August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
... and imperialism. The equation acts as a stepping stone in the development of human rights (and non-human rights), cosmological policy and philosophical theory. It is so-named for two reasons. First, in homage to yet another childhood tale of a far...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
.... Outreach activities involve programmes and projects that aim to look into the future of our world, explore cosmological phenomena and alien planets, invent space technology, record stories of the emotional and physical experience of living...
September 2024
Liberating access to space
... educated at Kings, Cambridge; Chennai, Exeter; and Open Universities and has degrees in strategy, international relations and cosmology.
November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
... planets orbiting in the habitable zones of their host stars. In grad school in the mid-1990s, I started off in cosmology and the early universe. I had just completed a master’s project on a hard problem - and solved it - but I realised...
