...first, a little back story: as a lifelong fan of all things space exploration, my dreams came true one day when I was offered a job ...them a sense of the past, present and future of space exploration and the value it has in not only creating new ...
... and psychological. A behavioural paradigm shift is developing which will transform humanity from Earth-dwellers to deep space explorers. The Earth is a familiar environment: it is our home, our nurturing foundation and the source of our well...
... to use standard commercially available launch vehicles. The project is very much in line with the goals of ESA’s space exploration strategy Apart from providing additional docking ports, the configuration will meet all the requirements for...
...then we must address them here before we seek recourse to other worlds. Space exploration is not the answer – at least not yet. There will be ... landscapes in pursuit of knowledge. Satellites ARE space explorers. Can anyone doubt that after Rosetta and...
...celestial body outside of Earth. In those intervening decades, we have made advances in space science, engineering and commerce but, when it comes to hands-on experience in exploring another world, humanity is only now about to break the half-century...
... is from the 1979 flyby of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. Inspiration Does Europe also want independent access to space for future space exploration, not only in LEO but also on the Moon and Mars? Finally, there is the matter of the...