November 2018
Creating the ‘Space for Art Foundation’
... Earth project. This project is in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission to the Moon and the iconic Earthrise image the astronauts took of our home planet rising above the horizon of the Moon on Christmas...
December 2018
Asgardia at Escape Velocity 2018
... station was also recognised at Escape Velocity, as the year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most iconic works of science fiction, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Space Station V was prominent part of the 2001 story and...
February 2019
Chaos and creation – cultural directions for the space industry
... the Universe. One of my favourite exercises examines how human behaviour in space is defined and agreed. We look at the iconic treaties and declarations which have become accepted formats for defining and agreeing our common goals...
October 2019
Skyrora – building on British space heritage
... on display in Penicuik, Midlothian near Skyrora’s headquarters and workshop in Edinburgh. Taking inspiration from the UK’s iconic Black Arrow orbital launcher of 1971, Skyrora’s launcher propellant is a combination of kerosene and distilled hydrogen...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... Moon and Mars that could accommodate many tens of people, and 2001’s spinning space station remains an iconic vision of an operational space base. The ability to construct such large facilities with safe habitable areas, propellant...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
... join the other sealed graves on Mars. This article is based on extracts from the book Space 2069 (Icon Books, August 2020, ISBN: 9781785786471, e-book and audio book formats). A hundred years after Apollo 11, humankind...
