April 2025
Lego’s tribute to NASA’s SLS and Artemis
... Williamson reviews its latest rocket kit – for the Space Launch System (SLS) - and sets the iconic plastic bricks in the context of the real-world Artemis programme. Much has changed at Florida’s launch sites...
August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
... as a discipline already enjoys tremendous popularity, and with the right direction space museums can be revived as cultural icons in cities all over the world and be as engaging at the grassroots level as they can afford to be. As more governments...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... enormously to our understanding of the universe and are surely worth preserving. The International Space Station (ISS) is an iconic example of what can be achieved when nations work together, and historians would surely condemn us if we allowed this...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
...astronauts to orbit in the near future - will receive its crews thanks to a specially-designed vehicle supplied by another iconic US corporation called Airstream. Enter Airstream Airstream has played a role in America’s space programme since the late...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...The Hubble Space Telescope - cultural as well as scientific icon. Harvest option The threat posed by debris within the ... higher levels, the safer our orbital heritage will be. The iconic Hubble image, ‘Pillars of Creation’, within the Eagle Nebula ...
May 2024
Spaceflight revolution on a shoestring
... this. The famous ‘Earthrise’ photograph, taken by astronaut William Anders from Apollo 8 in 1968, became the icon of the environment movement almost overnight. So, it is safe to predict that the benefits to the environment of spaceplane development...
