29 March 2018
Mapping the Heavens
... understanding of the universe has changed to an almost incredible extent since the beginning of the Space Age, not least thanks to products of that Space Age. A child growing up half a century ago could read a few classic astronomy texts featuring...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, he pioneered optical tracking of artificial satellites at the dawn of the Space Age, in 1957, and investigated upper-atmosphere density changes using satellite observations. This led to a PhD...
November 2019
Cosmo’s adventures in animated edutainment
... rocket science is provided by the education team at the Space Foundation - his ‘mission control’. Cosmo showing himself off ... released content. Here we see Cosmo awakening in his spaced-age bachelor-pad and greeting another Martian morning. The main ...
February 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
.... As leading thinkers have been saying for many years, the choice which humanity faces is between a Space Age or a return to the Stone Age. I like to illustrate this in terms of popular TV serials: either our future will look like Star...
15 January 2022
The Art of NASA
... the fact that, in the early days of the Space Age, most televisions and newspapers were ‘black and white’, ... has a certain charm. Interestingly, more than six decades into the Space Age, we still rely on artists to show us what spacecraft flying by...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... on the surface of the Moon, temporarily hovering in the stratosphere, or any of the speculative works that illustrate space-age futures here on Earth. While these efforts bring public consciousness to artistic expression and techno-driven creative...
