January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
The Lockheed Martin study is a high-level assessment to identify architecture drivers and science opportunities. There are some key tenets for this architecture. For this first human interplanetary mission, system redundancy and a self-rescue ...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
Landing on the Moon has become the goal of many public and private space-faring companies recently. One such company is the International Lunar Observatory Association which has plans to test and prove the concept of conducting robotic astronomy ...
August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
... scientists, educators and researchers can do with respect to conveying their ambition and passion. As historian and museologist Steven Conn wrote in his book, Do Museums Still Need Objects?, “If science museums take up this challenge, then they...
April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
... as an oxidizer. Anyone watching hydrazine being put into a satellite would think they were watching a scene from Steven Spielberg’s ET - The Extraterrestrial. Significant effort and safety precautions are required during ground operations and full...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
...popular culture is once again there to help us think. Blade Runner is an example of such effort in the form of a thriller. Steven Spielberg’s AI Artificial Intelligence is another, in a gentler and more cerebral genre. And many would agree that Isaac...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... conundrum and might help astronomers see experimental data with fresh eyes. The celebrated NASA historian Steven J. Dick advocated early on that anthropology could inform space endeavours. Despite the early exclusion of social science...
