March 2026
Humanity – the potential of space
.... With advancements in transportation systems like SpaceX’s Starship, the cost of accessing these resources is dropping...and implement them. SpaceX is planning to launch the first Starships to Mars in 2026. These first vehicles will gather critical...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
..., the company is also pushing hard with the completion of Starship; Musk’s massive stainless steel spaceship, the entrepreneur hopes will ... around March 2022. If all goes according to plan, Starship will make it to orbit for a brief period of time...
19 April 2024
A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars
...). The book’s eight chapters introduce interstellar travel, put it into historical context and discuss the design of starships. This design includes, of course, the method of propulsion, so he covers all the usual suspects - rockets, light and...
June 2015
The real Interstellar: space travel theories from Tsiolkovsky to wormholes
... as Icarus (via the British Interplanetary Society and the Tau Zero Foundation) and the 100 Year Starship project (via DARPA and NASA). In the century that has passed since Tsiolkovsky’s time, thousands of works...
March 2016
Multi-planet Civilizations in Popular Culture
... plot), the process of safely relocating an entire planet’s population is stated to be as long as three years. And although the starship Voyager has the necessary technology to ‘fix’ the planet’s nuclear apocalypse, the intense yearning of some among...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... in hot, very saline or extremely acidic conditions? It was because extremophiles had long surpassed what the crew of Starship Enterprise regularly boasts about in Star Trek - that they go where no one has gone before. A famous astrobiologist...