March 2015
Twinkle, twinkle satellite
... does, frequently fail us here on Earth (let alone in space), I want to point out that the completely unrealistic expectations of...satellites inspired only a kind of fearful awe. The Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union certainly ...
01 March 2016
Georgia, U.S: Space Flight Act passes judiciary committee
... it on to the Senate for consideration. The Georgia Space Flight Act, or House Bill 734, follows on from... sends a huge message to the commercial space industry that Georgia is now in the commercial space race,” said Spencer. The measure now goes ...
05 May 2026
Europe at the edge of a new world
... to a close, the tone shifted from policy detail to something more provocative. Addressing an audience of several hundred delegates, space industry veteran Rick Tumlinson from the United States delivered a keynote that was part historical reflection...
01 April 2025
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space will Change Our World
... fill in the names…). In some ways, the book is like any other book on space by an outside observer: it coins phrases like “the new Space Race” as if they are new and makes sure to mention Elon Musk by the second page...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
... ignored in economic policy since the mid 1960s. The Johnson administration decisively turned away from the space race and its associated technology investment in 1967 by explicitly rejecting NASA’s post Apollo plans. This has not...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... in 1966, when the first ever spacecraft docking in space with another vehicle was accomplished with an Agena target –...hugely important in terms of its geo-political consequences. The ‘Space Race’ was effectively won with the US landing of the first...
