11 October 2018
Voyager/Hello from Planet Earth (CD / DVD set)
...is an exception. The package is a celebration of the long-running Voyager missions to the outer planets comprising an 18-track music CD, a 70-... and designer/film-maker Tim Gill. Both the ‘Voyager’ album and the specially-commissioned film – ‘Hello ...
November 2026
Seeing Earth differently - The Dorothy Project and its search for the Overview Effect
...System, in the famous Pale Blue Dot image captured by Voyager 1 from beyond Neptune. Then there is Earthrise, the ... of environmental legislation that followed. Pale Blue Dot, captured by Voyager 1 in 1990 from six billion kilometres away, has become ...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... these early flights. The physical challenges for the crews spending 12–18 months in zero gravity during the voyage to Mars and back will be considerable. Equally important, however, will be the psychological impact of such a flight on the...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... of exploration. Characterising the local environment in the search for specific resources is the first necessary step of the voyage that humankind is already undertaking to explore and inhabit the Solar System. In this endeavour, robots are set...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
Abottle of Dom Perignon, vintage 2265, tumbles through space on a seemingly endless voyage. Unless this fine Champagne is somehow intercepted along its path, its inertia may carry it onward for ...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... years (though many spacecraft famously go on to extend their initial missions by a considerable amount, including Kepler, Cassini and Voyager 1 and 2 to name just a few). During this period, the satellite will survey nearly the entire sky...
