August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
... I ask usually reference one of a very small handful of galleries such as the Air and Space Museum in Washington or the London Science Museum’s Space exhibit. As fantastic and popular as these landmarks are, they are relatively antiquated, a fact...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
...HST) has contributed enormously to our understanding of the Universe and could be curated in-orbit as a space museum exhibit. Interaction A space museum should seek to document its exhibits in orbit by sending small inspector satellites to image them...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
... approach The Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) first became concerned about these issues... will thank us. About the author Derek Webber, a former space systems engineer and executive in the satcoms business, is founder...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
The opportunity to create a new space museum from scratch will strike most readers ...luck along the way. What do you do if you’re given the chance to build a space museum that will be visited by tens of thousands of people, but all you have to start ...
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... and companies, can claim ownership of any part of outer space, including orbits and trajectories, or any area on the Moon... history. The global community resolved early in the Space Age that space was not to become just another battlefield. Disputes...
May 2017
Recipe for success on flights to Mars
... air and space museums worldwide, was actually developed for spaceflight but hasn’t ever flown to space. And space food sticks were...energy system. And to venture outside we had to don simulated space suits. And for meals, we could only eat food cooked...
