January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... equipment, damaging satellites, and even causing blackouts. Opportunities and responsibilities The future is not what it used to be. Space Age 2.0 brings with it the opportunity to protect our spaceship Earth from the many cosmic hazards that we now...
07 April 2019
Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age
In the early years of the Space Age - and even before Sputnik opened that new age - the subject was portrayed and publicised by a number of popularisers, none...because it provides a valuable insight into the life of a true ‘Prophet of the Space Age’.
18 July 2018
The Long Space Age
... according to its blurb, this economics-based history of the Space Age “clearly shows that the current prominence of private-sector American ...a recent one”. In such a new universe, the Long Space Age of the book’s title goes back to the discovery of ...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... a series of articles in Collier’s magazine in 1952-54 that envisioned the coming space age. These articles were later published in book form, including Across the Space Frontier (Viking, 1952) and Conquest of the Moon (Viking, 1953). In addition...
19 June 2019
The Space-Age Presidency of John F Kennedy: a Rare Photographic History
...with Australians and is a welcome addition to the library of space-related biographies. It comes complete with 14 pages of chapter ...(the 85ft dish was moved to the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex in 1982). Even during Apollo, Honeysuckle’s...
August 2020
Opportunities for young people in the space sector
... find opportunities targeted to each stage of their development, leading to an exciting and rewarding career in the space sector. At the birth of the Space Age, the USSR and the United States were the only nations involved, with funding...
