October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... interested in politics. Sorry, Asgardian Parliamentarians, but most of them will be ‘just about managing’ on their home planet or space station. This is, in fact, an unintentional subtext of Star Wars, revealed by the fact that almost all the non...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
...of humanity that explores and will someday exploit space. To declare space and celestial bodies as the common heritage of ...must maintain and develop scientific research and technical innovation, outer space must also be a place and a reason to develop...
April 2025
Pioneering human reproduction in space
... the pioneers tackling this complex issue is SpaceBorn United, a Netherlands-based company leading early research into space procreation. In this article, CEO Dr Egbert Edelbroek shares insights into the groundbreaking journey his company – alongside...
May 2025
Mythologies of Outer Space - A new perspective on the final frontier
...“Let us support cultural revitalisation and fostering nation-to-nation relations based on treaties,” he states. A mirror to space ethics Space exploration narratives have long been interwoven with themes of conquest and discovery, setting a precedent...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... abandoning of the international institutions that remained, until the mid-1970s, the global centre for space diplomacy. For space-related affairs, the most important of such institutions is the UN (United Nations), particularly its Committee on the...
August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
... exploitation’ has something of a negative hue predisposing opinions on the subject. Similarly, neither ‘use of outer space’ or ‘space exploration’ encompass any commercial motive, as they refer to generic and rather scientific purposes. So far, the...
