October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... interested in politics. Sorry, Asgardian Parliamentarians, but most of them will be ‘just about managing’ on their home planet or space station. This is, in fact, an unintentional subtext of Star Wars, revealed by the fact that almost all the non...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
...of humanity that explores and will someday exploit space. To declare space and celestial bodies as the common heritage of ...must maintain and develop scientific research and technical innovation, outer space must also be a place and a reason to develop...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... abandoning of the international institutions that remained, until the mid-1970s, the global centre for space diplomacy. For space-related affairs, the most important of such institutions is the UN (United Nations), particularly its Committee on the...
August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
... exploitation’ has something of a negative hue predisposing opinions on the subject. Similarly, neither ‘use of outer space’ or ‘space exploration’ encompass any commercial motive, as they refer to generic and rather scientific purposes. So far, the...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... and centripetal force at GEO lies at a distance of ~42,164 km from Earth’s centre, 35,786 km above the equator. The Space Elevator is also an extremely simple construct compared to a bridge, basically a flawless, extremely long rope more akin to the...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
..., yes, settlers too, are currently to be found in classrooms around the world. And as our world embraces space science and space exploration on a whole new level, it is imperative that we address the question: “How will we thrive, not just...
