November 2018
Being human in space
... the potential accumulation of stress and anxiety. Exploration comes with the cost of braveness and insatiable curiosity. Asteroid starship The TU Delft Starship Team (DSTART) in the Netherlands is bringing together a wide variety of disciplines...
August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
...De Tokyo, Paris. Whilst there’s certainly nothing wrong with cultivating scientific curiosity in public youth, I believe that our failure to continue nurturing that curiosity in adults says a lot about our how we designate value to human achievements...
August 2021
Born to juggle in space
...Perhaps so much so, that it will not be fully understood for some time. At the least, I hope it will stimulate curiosity about the possibilities of movement on Earth and in space. I considered filming on a parabolic flight, but parabolic flights aren...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
...the mission will be important. The RAD instrument on the Curiosity rover provided radiation data on its flight to Mars, ...Apollo or the wings of the Space Shuttle. In 2012, the Curiosity rover’s ‘Seven Minutes of Terror’ to the Martian surface, ...
May 2026
Mars exploration – the nuclear option
...of the rocket equation. The tyranny of the rocket equation. The Curiosity rover on Mars has a mass of just over 1,980 pounds... payload attached, weighed 117 million pounds (53,000 kg). So Curiosity required 1,169,835 pounds of additional mass to get it...
27 December 2019
Mars 2020 aeroshell’s impressive pedigree
... descent, however, will look less like InSight’s than that of the Curiosity rover in 2012. While the Mars 2020 heat shield appears nearly identical to Curiosity’s, and matches its 4.5 metre girth for a planetary mission record...
