April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... is on your investment. Unless we can kick-start more human commerce off-Earth, then the market for voyaging to space will never grow meaningfully. How might that change in the next decade? Boeing’s Starliner astronaut...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... statements for the artists themselves. Carl Sagan’s Golden Record, sent into interstellar space aboard the Voyager spacecraft, set a course as a more didactic synthesis of the human experience, and was thereby more pluralistic in its...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... IHR also addresses measures regarding “conveyances”, which include aircraft, ships “or other means of transport on an international voyage”. A restrictive reading encompasses the transport of persons and cargo between international borders, but the...
August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
...an alien encounter and trying to avoid an extraterrestrial trail of tears. OpinionIn a still from Georges Méliès’ 1902 adventure film Le voyage dans la Lune a group of lunar explorers is attacked and brought before the king of the Moon’s subterranean...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... 2020 showed that space architecture and design already drive the private space industry. SpaceX wanted a voyage in Crew Dragon to be an enjoyable experience for its passengers. The black-and-white ultramodern design of the capsule...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
.... Apollo 13 is very much worth watching because it effectively shows three points of particular interest to would-be space voyagers. First, space is tremendously inhospitable and, for now at least, living conditions are likely to be claustrophobic...
