August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
... bases and transport people from one base to another, offering them a completely different experience during the voyage. Docking/charging stations are placed along the paths between the lunar bases. One proposal for...
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...
