November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... own dramatic missteps and failures, each representing a litany of firsts and each reverberating with demonstrations of human perseverance, ingenuity and accomplishment. In 1972, Apollo 17 was the final mission and remains the last time humans...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
.... Political theorist and philosopher, Jane Bennett, calls this the vibrancy of matter or the power of things to persevere in their own being, including perspectives of what she terms “thing power” through material influences as debris, transducers...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... site, close to the city of Alcântara, in the State of Maranhão. The Sonda family of sounding rockets I-IV. Perseverance in adversity Investment in the VLS-1 programme was reduced, resulting in continuous delays. Three prototype vehicles were built...
January 2021
What it takes to be a space entrepreneur
... to have a high tolerance for dealing with the loneliness of pushing the new idea. Somehow they know to persevere, to keep on going. They aren’t frustrated when people aren’t paying attention. And when someone criticises them...
August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
... designed to make their own decisions to explore, repair, identify and adapt during missions (e.g., NASA’s Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter) reusable launch vehicles, including the use of sophisticated AI to facilitate a return...
January 2023
Producing food in space
... Spaceship Earth too. Our Earth is a finite rock travelling across the cosmos, a space of limited resources. If humanity is to persevere and become more than we are today, we need both to learn to live in harmony with nature here on Earth...
