March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... wishing to expand the economy into the High Frontier. References 1 See, e.g., Verne, J: Hector Servadac, Voyages et Adventures a traverse le Monde Solaire (“Off on a Comet”), 1877. 2 See, e.g., Tsiolkovsky, K.E.: The Exploration of Cosmic Space...
March 2016
Time for European visionary goals
...-term solutions for immediate questions. But where would we be today if the decision to fund Christopher Columbus’ great voyages of exploration were not taken by the Spanish crown because, let’s be honest, there was not much use...
March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
... all the surrounding technology, ranging from the launch platform to the control room where the rocket’s voyage is monitored, including the delicate moment of the landing. Moving further away, all the technical crews come...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... steamships which carried them were the product of 400 years of maritime development since the earliest transatlantic voyages. Musk’s ambitions are immense - yet at the same time his approach to them is disarmingly modest Musk’s proposed...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... Modules provide sufficient partitionable habitable volume to support Crew well-being and safety for the long voyage home. In a nominal mission re-entry, the crew is divided into two groups of three along with containers of samples...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
...-and-a-half times round the world non-stop. The present record, held by the Virgin Galactic Voyager, is just once. To fly one-and-a-half times around the world without in-flight refuelling would need...
