October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... - and the world as well. If we look at history and economics, they demonstrate that the overall decline of our ... the Moon. Energy, as in unlimited solar energy from space, represents another huge economic opportunity that could easily have powered...
02 December 2020
China's Chang'e 5 probe successfully lands on the Moon
...carry out an unmanned rendezvous and docking in a lunar orbit around 380,000 kilometres away, a first in the history of space exploration. The orbiter containing the lunar material is programmed to land in northern China's Inner Mongolia region later...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
... their liberal capitalist democracy. We must not underestimate contributions made to the arts and to our cultural history by space exploration and space travel While the USA and the Soviet Union fought for state-based supremacy both...
June 2018
Striding through space
... UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, ESA and UK agencies on evaluating space facilities projects, assessing economic benefits, and documenting the history of space exploration. Formerly chief economist of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... But let’s take a look at the history and background of space art. Most space artists would dearly love to visit other worlds... great effect: ‘ferry rockets’, forerunners of the Space Shuttle, a space station powered by solar energy, Moon bases and ...
April 2024
Agencia Espacial Española – Spain’s future assurance
...Sacristán to find out why a country with such a long space history had only recently set up its own agency and what its ... an entity is really new, Spain really has had a long history of space activity. Some of its people come from the Centre for the ...
