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...
April 2026
Robotics is the future of space labour
... and add more capabilities on short timelines, adding to the need for more labour in orbit. The economics of human spaceflight, however, is still prohibitive, the health risks relatively unknown and the danger unprecedented. As a result, orbital...
