May 2025
Mythologies of Outer Space - A new perspective on the final frontier
...ideological struggle. Noreen Humble expands on this theme in Imaginary Voyages to the Moon: Lucian and His Legacy, where she ...A True Story, during which a ship’s crew takes an unexpected voyage to the Moon. The final frontier - who gets to decide...
March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
..., giving it capabilities well beyond what conventional chemical propulsion provides. That is one of the keys to how such a voyage can be undertaken. Acceleration with patience Ion propulsion had its origins in solid science, but despite some...
October 2015
Eating in space: from Michelin-starred chefs to self-sufficiency
... of taste and smell. But there remain considerable challenges to making astronauts self-sufficient in food production over voyages lasting several years. Ever since the first human left on a journey far from home, one of the...
February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
...(2007) Celestial Mechanics: The Waltz of the Planets. Springer Praxis, Berlin, pp 94-95. 25 Leverington, D. (2003) Babylon to Voyager and Beyond: A History of Planetary Astronomy, Cambridge University Press, 2003, p.193. 26 Weibel, W. M., W. M. Kaula...
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...
