May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... up 150 tons of payload on a reusable rocket, taking people and cargo to the Moon and potentially fulfilling billionaire Elon Musk’s dream of colonising Mars. Other heavy rocket launches include ULA’s Vulcan, Blue Origin’s New Glenn, as well...
May 2025
Mythologies of Outer Space - A new perspective on the final frontier
... ideologies. Pak critiques contemporary enthusiasm for space colonisation – particularly among tech entrepreneurs like Elon Musk – who frame interplanetary settlement as a solution to Earth’s environmental crises without addressing the underlying...
October 2026
After the applause What Artemis II really means
... finish line. Moreover, the promised one-mission-per-annum of the Artemis programme is not enough to make us, in Elon Musk’s words, a spacefaring civilisation. Whether or not it’s enough to beat China to the Moon, there is no guarantee that Artemis...
21 December 2015
SpaceX’s postponed rocket launch due for lift off today
...a land landing," SpaceX said in a statement. Monday "has a 10 percent higher chance of a good landing,” announced internet tycoon Elon Musk on Sunday afternoon, several hours before its initially planned launch. Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket and the...
