March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
...truly began in 2010, when a private company first successfully launched a round-trip space flight. Commercial innovation in space Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies (“SpaceX”), founded in 2002, made history in December 2010 when it became the...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... where we can gain knowledge about the evolution of the Solar System and is also a potential platform for space exploration. ESA German astronaut Alexander Gerst onboard the ISS. Implementation of national objectives in accordance with the German...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... project is not only an inspirational project that lays the base for further research and innovation in regards to space exploration but it can also be instantly and directly applied to solve problems on Earth. About the authors Iris M. Madsen...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
... missions have been led mostly by NASA in the US, by Roscosmos in Russia and by JAXA in Japan. Europe is a main actor in space exploration but has lacked the goal of claiming part of the samples brought back by these missions. Sample return...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... a distant horizon. But however symbolic it may seem, it will assure that the base of a new generation of competitive space exploration will be founded in our shared humanity. This plaque, left on the Moon at the Apollo 15 landing site in August...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
..., the lunar vicinity is a key area for the development of an affordable and sustainable space economy that would completely transform the current landscape of space exploration [2]. High-speed lunar rover Current rover designs are not suited for...
