October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
...followed by a catastrophic explosion and it has yet to launch successfully. The busiest in the world for most of the Space Age was Plesetsk in Russia, its dominance ended only recently by the SpaceX Falcon 9 launching 50 Starlink satellites at a time...
31 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Publishes Letter to the Washington Space Establishment
... time it may surprise you. Why? Because the Next Space Age already started, will not freeze, and by the time new...' work to innovate on the platforms created in the first Space Age -- assuring your eventual irrelevance. The opportunity is a new administration ...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... around the world read ‘SpaceShipOne makes history: first private manned mission to space’. On this historic day, everyone witnessed the dawn of a new space age as investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites launched...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
... alcohol on both the Russian Mir space station and the International Space Station (ISS). According to cosmonaut Alexander Lazutkin, “During prolonged space missions, especially at the beginning of the space age, we had alcoholic drinks in the...
19 June 2018
Harwell Space Cluster turbocharges growth in UK’s ‘New Space’ sector
..., Midven and Wren Capital invest in the leading innovator of deployable space antennas and structures for the New Space age. The five companies exemplify the Harwell Space Cluster and companies within it that are helping to drive a step...
31 December 2018
Foreword to Spaceflight: an illustrated bibliography of pre-1958 publications on rocketry and space travel
.... For decades, its author has been collecting and cataloguing books published before the dawn of the Space Age, and this illustrated bibliography is the result of his passion (full disclosure: this reviewer is acknowledged in the prelim...