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...
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...
May 2026
Mars exploration – the nuclear option
...-of-a-spacecraft-enabled-by-nuclear-thermal-propulsion. Human spaceflight implications This hybrid model offers more... well be the key to unlocking the next chapter in human spaceflight. SpaceX plans to send the first unmanned Starship rocket to...
19 June 2020
US firm offers flights to edge-of-space under high-tech balloon
...our global biosphere,” adds Poynter, who specifies that Neptune’s commercial human spaceflight launches are regulated by the FAA Office of Commercial Spaceflight. The human space flight company plans to launch from the iconic Shuttle Landing Facility...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... made, transporting astronauts to orbit via private American spaceflight technology remains quite some time away. The situation ... such as Indonesia has harboured its own ambitions for human spaceflight since 1985. Situated right on the equator, it ...
