February 2016
Danish Surprise for ISS Crew
... for coffee. “The sweets were designed with a dear friend of mine, who’s actually a world class chocolate master,” recalls Schmidt. “We came up with this idea to do a space rock because we wanted it to look like something from space...
March 2016
Multi-planet Civilizations in Popular Culture
...number of allegorical interpretations, but perhaps the chief meaning of its destruction is relayed in the famous quote by Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, ‘I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... mountains really look like in profile. His 1937 book Sur les Autres Mondes (On Other Worlds) is a classic. Master of space art The best-known space artist from the forties and fifties was the American...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
... threats long before they impact the user’s own interests, assets or forces. For example, Israel has mastered spacepower in order to attain the strategic depth it lacks on Earth’s surface. Israeli spacepower operates well beyond Israeli...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
...Curiosity rover, currently still exploring the planet. After those research experiences I was hooked. I designed my master’s project at UCL to be centred on the extremophile aspect of astrobiology: this time on extreme cold, radiation and desiccation...
October 2016
The dwarf galaxy problem
... problem to be working on at the moment, and watch this space (… no pun intended)! Olivia Keenan completed her Masters degree in Physics with Astronomy at the University of Southampton, England, before moving to Cardiff University In Wales to study...
