January 2019
Space for Art – Love letter to Earth
... five decades ago and it continues to inspire today, particularly through organisations like the Space for Art Foundation which brings together space exploration and art to encourage children who face difficulties and health issues in their young...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... considers its future development. Whilst writing The Overview Effect, I wanted to create a revolution in how we think about space exploration, our planet and ourselves. For a long time, I thought I had failed in this endeavour but even though...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
... will grow as this decade progresses. Commercialisation of space exploration, however, will not end with the lunar economy...and a successful lunar economy will lead to further deep space exploration. The time when we land the first person on Mars...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... a second rover from the former Soviet Union, followed in January 1973. Significantly, in terms of the history of space exploration, the Lunokhods remained the only teleoperated rovers to be sent to another planetary body until NASA’s Sojourner rover...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... start of a new era for space exploration. Increasingly, space missions are being led by commercial entities.... Meanwhile, national governments across the world continue to explore outer space, as demonstrated by China’s lunar sample return mission ...
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...
