June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
... breakthroughs such as occurred with ICs in the 1950s and 1960s into a programmatic framework. In those early days of space exploration, Silicon Valley and the entrepreneurial movement it helped bring about did not exist in the US. In the 21st...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
.... The result was HR 1508, a bill that attempted to carve a law that would satisfy the needs of emerging space exploration companies whilst simultaneously heeding the international law obligations of the United States. HR 1508 was more successful...
March 2017
Space is open for business
...project manager of the World Food Programme, believes that it would be unrealistic to ask mankind to stop dreaming about space exploration for two decades until we solve our problems on Earth. “Incredible technological advances in the past years have...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
... bravery, humour and ingenuity of the protagonists. It also reflects very well the experiences and challenges of real space exploration and the huge component of the unknown and unplanned that can only be overcome with flexibility and...
May 2018
Woman on the Moon
...) based in north east England. For 10 years she has specialised on art and STEAM education projects about space exploration and science of the cosmos. She has participated in several international residencies, including Corning Museum of Glass, USA...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
...the many challenges to overcome before would-be space explorers can embark on long-duration expeditions to ...If humans are to have any hope of becoming true interplanetary explorers, then new life support technologies have to be developed that increase...
