October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... for all humankind. Young people are more impressed with today’s space rush than their counterparts probably were with the first space race. The positive impacts space can have on humanity, in terms of economics and environmental sustainability...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... who seem convinced that the mission is a signal to China. “In a way the Indian mission will trigger an Asian space race and do not be surprised if China starts planning to launch multiple satellites in one shot only to beat India,’’ observed...
26 February 2018
Why do we go into space?
... the famous flight of Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961. This flight, which was part of a Cold War “space race” between two governments, culminated with humans walking on the Moon more than 50 years ago – and once...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
... return to Earth, Sergey Kovalev (lead Soviet rocket engineer during the Space Race years) is rumoured to have exclaimed that another woman would only be sent to space over his dead body. And as it turned out, the USSR did...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
... about feasible with the technology of the day. Spaceplanes were not developed at the time because the ‘space race’ to the Moon, driven by the Cold War soaked up the available funding. The aircraft company design teams...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
...in the first place In my book I trace the commercial space race (as many have before), but rather than focus on its ...through a realm of expertise as new as the commercial space race: outer space anthropology. And it is through this lens of expertise ...
