September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
When we think of the Space Age, we tend to draw an immediate parallel between space exploration and age of exploration, making a comparison between Christopher Columbus and the Spanish Monarchs, which financed him, to today’s space agencies like ...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
On 20 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the Moon and accomplished one of the greatest achievements in the history of ...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
... Me to the Moon’ quilts here: https://www.flymetothemoon.gallery/art-quilts/ I have vivid personal memory of watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take those first steps on the Moon, and my own memories of excitement about it, of going...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... seized a valuable Apollo 11 lunar rock that she said her late husband had received from astronaut Neil Armstrong. In 1973, the US distributed a small speck of lunar material extracted during the Apollo missions as a goodwill gift to 135...
June 2019
Asgardia’s parliament – a year of progress
... Sun. By contrast, one year on, Asgardia does not regard Christopher Columbus, the Wright Brothers, Yuri Gagarin or Neil Armstrong as actors in an odyssey which ended around 1972. We think that the narrative in which they starred must go on to the...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... riches. It could also be said that we were impossibly idealistic when Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth and Neil Armstrong took his famous steps. So why should we not reach higher than a free-for-all framework for...
