February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... (Jupiter, Io and Ganymede) and September 1996 (Europa). The portrait of Callisto is from the 1979 flyby of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. Inspiration Does Europe also want independent access to space for future space exploration, not only...
June 2022
Pandemic parallels
... them into its future industrial development as one of a range of measures to prepare humans for these unprecedented voyages. Without such alterations, it is unlikely that humanity will successfully travel into outer space, particularly for long...
April 2025
Maximising returns to Earth - the infinite potential of space
... of speaker participants were Anousheh Ansari (pictured), chief executive, XPRIZE; Dylan Taylor, chairman and chief executive, Voyager Space; Ricardo Conde, President, Portuguese Space Agency; and Lindy Elkins-Tanton, principal investigator of NASA...
07 June 2015
A quick(er) jaunt to Mars?
... example. In spite of this potentially welcome news, it still helps to remember that even with a shortened travel time a voyage to Mars isn’t likely to be a picnic , as The New Yorker has recently reminded us in an excellent long-read by Tom Kizzia...
01 July 2015
Ceres, Dawn, mysterious bright spots, and exploring the solar system
..., the mystery of Ceres’ bright spots drives home the point that even as we contemplate the possibility of interstellar voyages , our own solar system is still in many ways uncharted territory for humanity. And it’s not as if Ceres hasn...
31 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Publishes Letter to the Washington Space Establishment
... realms; we have almost none -- for now. Support space resource and industrial infrastructure. Multibillion-dollar satellites or voyagers to Mars and beyond, if we don't live off the land we will always only be visitors or wire stringers...
