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...
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...
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...
