April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... immigrants seeking a land of opportunity. The more natural reaction, he thought, would surely echo the words of Robert Falcon Scott on his arrival at the South Pole in 1912: “Great God, this is an awful place!” Cockell took issue...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
... Scott salutes the American flag at the Hadley-Apennine lunar landing site in front of the Lunar Module Falcon. Artemis Accords signatories have committed to “preserve outer space heritage” and “contribute to multilateral efforts to further develop...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... can now easily be compared to the crisis of plastics in the world’s oceans. A tongue-in-cheek adaptation of the Starlink Falcon 9 mission patch. Since the early days of the Space Age, we have witnessed an increasing awareness of the need...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... Technologies (AKA SpaceX), which has introduced an element of reusability to its rockets that others seek to emulate. Today, Falcon 9 first stages are regularly landed at the launch site, or on an ocean-going barge, and more than 50 have...
