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 ...
10 October 2018
The Ringed Planet: Cassini’s voyage of discovery at Saturn
... inspired so much high-profile science fiction, while others might choose Jupiter for its iconic Great Red Spot. But if we consider ‘iconic’ in terms of graphic symbolism, it has to be Saturn: ask a child to sketch a planet and, likely as not...
March 2015
ESA’s Clean Space Initiative and the role of the LCA tool
...environmental movement have always shared a strong connection. Iconic images like Earthrise or the Pale Blue Dot ...technologies, space debris mitigation, and active space debris removal. The iconic Earthrise image taken by the crew of Apollo 8 as they ...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
... of humankind’s first walk on the Moon. As Susanne describes it, this multifaceted collection includes quilts that, “commemorate the iconic images from the news; recall personal memories of July 20, 1969; honour all of the Apollo missions; recognise...
