October 2019
Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset
... time is now ripe to finally overcome the “expendable rocket mindset” which is the biggest remaining barrier to a new Space Age that has the potential to create innumerable, profitable and sustainable new business opportunities. About the author...
November 2019
The economic promise of space
... to land men on the Moon by the end of the 1960s became a reality and we seemed to be at the dawn of a true Space Age, when humans would routinely live and work on the high frontier. An infrastructure of scientific and commercial platforms...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
A new space age is dawning, an age characterised by commercial and ...life on Earth as well as the expansion of humanity into space. Settlement includes space resource utilisation, space fuel depots, research outposts, and more. It’s about taking ...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
Since the beginning of the Space Age in the1950s, the US State of Florida has been a leader in the space industry. The nation originally turned to Florida for its spaceport because of location - proximity to both the ocean ...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... the cultural impact of the Space Age. Isn’t this our destiny, isn’t this what ‘Space’ is all about? Chris ... explorers that I want for my grandchildren. I want Space to come of age. Perhaps duller, perhaps less adventurous, certainly more responsible ...
April 2026
Exploring Mars – the key issues
... either of these ancient processes to come to a screeching halt at the top of our planet’s atmosphere. Indeed, as the Space Age approaches its seventieth year, they show no signs of doing so. About the author Donald F Robertson is a freelance writer...