26 February 2020
Demand soars for space flights with Virgin Galactic
...commercial director, said that the increasing demand for personal spaceflight was encouraging. "One Small Step allows us to.... Presently, Virgin Galactic are the only publicly traded human spaceflight company and began trading on the New York Stock ...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
...likely because the technologies in question were developed for government needs and not in response to market demand. In human spaceflight, this type of thinking was behind the founding of SpaceX, started by Elon Musk with an initial goal of reducing...
May 2018
Woman on the Moon
... and secondary school children, students and family workshops. These dramatic and exciting plans, and other human spaceflight missions, are of huge interest to children and non-specialists. Participants are invited to create their own vision...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... influential, and unofficial leader, of these enthusiasts was Sergei Korolev. In the early 1960s this synergy between human spaceflight and military technologies began to unravel. Korolev had championed the use of liquid oxygen along with refined...
November 2019
Space kaleidoscope - towards a genuine multi-messenger exploration
...She has provided strategic advice to government agencies and private industry on space applications and commercial human spaceflight. Dr Langston holds a PhD in the History & Philosophy of Science; a JD with specialisation in Public International Law...
February 2022
A new legal system for space
... orbit, delivered astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the ISS on 31 May 2020, opening a new era in human spaceflight. Courts of the future I hope to establish a system that is founded on the principle that problems can be resolved without...